Strengthening Teams' Quality Improvement (QI) Skills
The QI Academy was designed to help hospitals build a multidisciplinary maternal QI team that fosters sustainable change and enhances professional experience.
QI Academy was a dynamic learning environment for participating hospitals to receive mentorship in enhancing their perinatal QI team’s skills. The year-long educational initiative focused on the application of evidence-based QI techniques to a hospital-specific project, giving participants the opportunity to apply learning and demonstrate leadership. Hospitals selected a maternal QI project that was focused on implementing one of CMQCC’s toolkits or a national AIM bundle. QI Academy also served as a great team-building tool to strengthen a hospital’s QI skills after leadership turnover!
CMQCC initially launched QI Academy in August 2018, with new cohorts beginning every 6 months. Each cohort ran for one year, and CMQCC supported hospital teams on monthly educational learning calls. All CMQCC member hospitals were invited to apply for QI Academy.
Participating teams had to include nursing and physician leadership. Quality leadership was also strongly encouraged.
Maintenance of Certification Credit
CMQCC is excited to announce that we can offer physicians participating in our quality improvement activities credit for Maintence Of Certification Part IV - Healthcare QI Participation through the multi-specialty portfolio program of American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). We are able to do this as part of our participation in the national Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM).