Cystic Fibrosis Quality Improvement Award for Pediatric CF Program
At the 28th Annual North American Cystic Fibrosis meeting held in Atlanta on October 9-11, 2014 the Emory+Children’s CF Care Center was one of 9 Centers across the country to receive a Quality Care Award. This award was presented jointly to the Pediatric CF Program at Scottish Rite and the Emory+Children’s Pediatric CF program for our cross campus programs on screening for CF diabetes (which occurs in 20% of our teens with CF) and on the transition from pediatric to adult CF care called the “Journey to Independence”.
The criteria set forth by the CF Foundation for being considered for the award is sustained quality improvement work that improved outcomes. The Quality Improvement performance standards which the Committee used to identify Centers that meet this criteria included Centers that:
- Actively uses clinical outcomes data to identify opportunities for improvement and documents results of improvement efforts;
- Aligns improvement efforts to result in measurable improvement in important clinical outcomes (process improvement tied to clinical outcomes with Key Drivers);
- Consistently and actively involves patients and families in identifying, designing, and/or implementing improvement efforts;
- Employs innovative strategies to improve care processes and outcomes; and implements system changes that result in high reliability of care processes.