Improving Systems to Support Quality Healthcare for Children and Youth in New York State
A project designed to further enhance the clinical quality in New York State’s school-based health centers by teaching health center and state health department staff how to support, spread and sustain quality improvement initiatives. The project’s initial work focused on enhancing children and youth healthcare through asthma care, comprehensive physical exams and the prevention and treatment of obesity.
Who
The project involved 24 school-based health centers in New York State.
Our Role
Provided training on how to use the Model for Improvement to make and spread improvements. Also, NICHQ designed a comprehensive measurement strategy for the New York State Department of Health to use to track the progress of its school-based health center project.
Funder
This project was funded by the New York State Department of Health.
Project Impact
External Resources
State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Power of PQCs
Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.
PQCs in the News
Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.
Patient Safety Bundles
From the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. PSBs are collections of evidence-informed best practices that address clinically specific conditions in pregnant and postpartum people. The NNPQC helps provide TA and support to PQCs in adopting the core AIM Perinatal Mental Health Bundle.
Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
The CDC’s landing page for PQCs, including helpful infographics, videos, and links to help explain what PQCs are, how they work, and stories, learnings, and publications that have come out of the state PQCs.
Related Content
Resources produced by the Improving Systems to Support Quality Healthcare for Children and Youth in New York State project or on related topics
Meet Our Team
“In our deep organizational work to move along the Equity Systems Continuum from a Savior-Designed System to an Equity-Empowered System, we acknowledge the power of action. The potential is limitless for today’s commitments to improve the systems in which health care and public health professionals work and families receive care.”
