National Quality Organizations

Quality organizations strive to improve the quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. These organizations strategically work with health care providers to identify areas of quality improvement. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Health and Medicine Division highlights America's course for delivering quality.

• Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  • AHRQ Quality Indicators for Hospitals
    The AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit is a free resource designed to guide hospitals through the process of using the AHRQ Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs) and Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) to improve care. For a thorough introduction to the toolkit, hospitals and other organizations can now download a video describing the toolkit and discussing the use of several key tools. This 45-minute video, drawn from a webinar presented in February 2012, is an easy way to introduce the toolkit to quality improvement teams and other interested staff.
    • Toolkit
    • Video
• American Health Quality Association
• AQA Alliance
• Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
  America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being
• Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) 
• HRSA Health Resources & Services Administration USDHH
• Institute of Health Care Improvement (IHI)
• Leap Frog Group
• National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  The academy provides information and advice concerning health and science policy with reports to quality decision makers and the public.
  • To Err is Human (November 1999)
  • Crossing the Quality Chasm (March 2001)
  • Performance Measurement: Accelerating Improvement (December 2005)
  • Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program: Maximizing Potential (March 2006)
  • Knowing What Works in Health Care: A Roadmap for the Nation (January 2008)
• National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ)
• National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
• National Institute of Health Care Management Foundation
• National Patient Safety Foundation
• National Quality Forum
  • The ABCs of Measurement
  • PowerPoint Presentation
  • Measures Applications Partnership (MAP)
  • National Priorities Partnership (NPP)
• PCPI- Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement
• Press Ganey Associates
• Professional Research Consultants, Inc. (PRC)
• Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB)
  • Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) New Quality Improvement Website
    Public health professionals who wish to share information about quality improvement initiatives can add a new online resource to their toolkits. The Public Health Quality Improvement Exchange is a free, publicly available communication platform dedicated to enhancing the performance, effectiveness, and efficiency of public health systems by making public health quality improvement information easily accessible to public health practitioners.
• The Joint Commission
• U.S. State Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations (QIO)
• Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC)