Frontiers in Public Health | |
The Diamond Project: A Quality Improvement Model for Adopting Shared Service Delivery in the Washington Vaccines for Children Program | |
Dorene Hersh1  Betty Bekemeier2  Kylerose Delaney2  Stacy Wenzl3  Michele Roberts4  | |
[1] Public Health – Seattle &School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States;Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, Olympia, WA, United States;Washington State Department of Health, Olympia, WA, 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 | |
来源: DOAJ |
【 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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