The National Quality Strategy (NQS)

In current health care system delivery of high quality medical care has become a priority. The health policies implemented by Centers of Medicare and Medicaid in the form of quality reporting and programs like meaningful use that offer financial rewards for meeting certain standards of care has made delivery of quality care, center of health care system (Withrow, n. d).
The National Quality Strategy (NQS) was published in March 2011 and is led by Agency for Health care Research and Quality which works on behalf of the U.S Department of Health and Human services (HHS) whose main goal is to set standards for quality improvement in health care. The NQS was formed by taking input from a various stake holders representing all dimension of health

Evaluating dimensions of quality in healthcare
All sectors of society such as providers, payers, individuals, and employers should work together to improve the health care quality and establish policies and procedures to adopt the following three NQS aims:
• Delivering medical care that is patient centered, accessible, reliable and safe
• Improving overall health of U.S population through intervening and implementing policies related to social, behavioral and environmental determinants of health
• Improving access to affordable care to U.S population by reducing cost of quality health care (About the National Quality Strategy, 2017)
National Quality Strategy focuses on following six priorities to advance the above three aims:
• Ensure safer health care by decreasing harm caused during the delivery of care
• Encourage personal and family engagement by being partners in health care
• Facilitate effective coordination and communication of health

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