The Diamond Project: A Quality Improvement Model for Adopting Shared Service Delivery in the Washington Vaccines for Children Program

Frontiers in Public Health

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Betty Bekemeier¹  Kylerose Delaney¹  Stacy Wenzl²  Michele Roberts³  Dorene Hersh⁴ 

[1] School of Public Health, University of Washington, United States;Washington State Department of Children, United States;Washington State Department of Health, United States;Public Health – Seattle & King County, United States

关键词: vaccines for children;    shared-service delivery;    cross-jurisdictional sharing;    foundational public health services;    public health departments;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2020.00272

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Context: Increasing federal requirements with no change in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention budget creates an unsustainable delivery model between states and their local counterparts for programs like Vaccines for Children (VFC). Project: The Washington State Department of Health collaborated with the Washington Association of Local Public Health Officials to identify how best to improve the quality of the VFC program. Approach: Utilizing Quality improvement and Lean Six Sigma methods, the project team was able to adopt a new shared-service delivery model to improve the quality of the VFC program in Washington State. Discussion: Through utilization of quality improvement methods and Lean methodology Washington State Department of Health identified recommendations to adopt a shared-service delivery and implemented those changes.

【 授权许可】

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