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Program Overview
What is the Coordinated Quality
Improvement Program (CQIP)?
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During the 1993 Legislative session, the Coordinated Quality
Improvement Program was created within the Washington State Department of Health.
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The purpose of the program is to improve the quality of health care,
to identify and to prevent malpractice.
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The goal of the program is
to provide structures and processes that:
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Measure, retrospectively and
prospectively, key characteristics of services such as effectiveness, accuracy, timeliness
and cost.
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Review categories of services and
methods of service delivery to improve health care outcomes.
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Ensure information gathered for the
program is reviewed and used to revise health care policies and procedures.
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Coordinated quality
improvement programs approved by the department are provided discovery limitations.
Once approved by Department of Health,
information and documents specifically created for, collected, and maintained by an
approved program are exempt from discovery during lawsuits in most cases.
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This is a voluntary
program.
Who can apply?
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Professional societies or organizations
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Health care service contractors
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Health maintenance organizations
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Health carriers
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Health care institutions and medical
facilities, other than hospitals
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Provider groups of five or more.
This may take many forms, as long as its members
are practitioners regulated under the state’s laws for health professionals (Title
18)
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A group might consist of providers
sharing treatment modalities and perspectives.
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A community of providers which
cross-disciplinary lines.
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Solo practitioners may form a group to
create a Coordinated Quality Improvement Program.
How to apply?
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Comments or questions regarding the CQIP?
Department of Health
Coordinated Quality Improvement Program
PO BOX 47890
Olympia, WA 98504-7890
Phone: 360-236-4028 or 360 236-4067
E-mail: Jovi. Swanson@doh.wa.gov
or
Patti.Rathbun@doh.wa.gov
Documents posted in .pdf version on the Department of Health Web
site will be made available in an alternative format on request to users
who are unable to download or view .pdf files on the Web. To request an
alternative format, contact Jovi.Swanson@doh.wa.gov
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