HSMP 578 – Performance Improvement in Health Services
Biography
This course introduces students to organizational performance improvement and illustrates applications in health services delivery. Course content draws upon literature regarding industrial quality improvement, organizational performance assessment, patient safety, and health services improvement. Students will learn to apply improvement science to redesign systems and processes to achieve performance improvement in various kinds of health services delivery organizations. Students will apply this knowledge to personal, organizational and systems level improvement projects.
Prerequisite
HSMP 541 – Org Behavior in Health Services
HSMP 574 – Health Systems Organization
¹ CEPH Primary Instructional Faculty
² CEPH Non-Primary Instructional Faculty
Experienced Faculty With Diverse Backgrounds
More than 150 faculty members work within the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. They have a wide range of expertise, from monitoring and assessing health risks and opportunities in populations, to helping build health-supporting social environments through policy, advocacy, and programs. They are educators, advisors, researchers, practitioners and community leaders. They come from backgrounds in quantitative, behavioral, environmental and social sciences, policy and government, exercise and health sciences and anthropology, among many other areas. They all work in collaboration with each other and with community partners, and are especially focused on the training and education of future leaders and practitioners in the public health fields.
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