Strategic Goals
(Adopted 5/12/04)

Global Vision

To improve Health Status for all Vermonters

AIMS

The Vermont health care system must be safe, patient centered, effective, efficient, timely and equitable.

STRATEGIC GOALS

  1. VPQHC will expand the application of the Chronic Care Model to other life conditions.

  2. VPQHC will enhance its capacity to produce useful data and analysis to inform and enhance information-based policy and decision making in the health care system.
  3. VPQHC will identify opportunities to improve end-of-life care.
  4. VPQHC will identify opportunities to improve patient safety.

OPERATING PRINCIPLES and VALUES

  1. We undertake projects and engage in activities to achieve the vision, mission and strategic goals adopted by the Board of Directors of VPQHC.

  2. VPQHC works to ensure that the organization’s staffing, resources and financial support are effectively matched to expected deliverables.
  3. We actively seek partners and/or successors to enhance and continue our work.
  4. We undertake improvement efforts that are innovative, evidence-based and patient centered.
  5. We undertake projects that are ethical and we espouse and adhere to the highest ethical standards in all work that we undertake.
  6. We ensure that necessary resources are identified and in place to support VPQHC activities over time.
  7. We seek to engage in projects and activities where the unique strengths and focus of VPQHC can make a substantial contribution toward quality improvement.
  8. We make sure aims and objectives of any undertaking are always clearly defined.
  9. We make sure that progress towards aims and objectives is measurable and can be compared to a standard or benchmark whenever possible.
  10. We include evaluation and improvement in everything we do.
  11. We treat all data and information with appropriate confidentiality.
  12. Production and dissemination of clinical practice guidelines will primarily be undertaken in conjunction with an implementation activity.

Email: mail@vpqhc.org
Phone: 802.229.2152
Fax: 802.229.5098

Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care, Inc.
132 Main Street, P.O. Box 1356, Montpelier, VT 05601

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