Welcome to the Maryland Association for Healthcare Quality (MAHQ) website.

We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to:

• Advancing the practice of quality improvement in health care across the continuum  of care and
• Supporting the memberships' professional development.
   

RECENT EVENTS

• MAHQ Spring Educational Conference, Anne Arundel Medical Center
  May 19, 2010
  • Gaither Pennington of the Maryland Quality Indicator Project will do an interactive session on use of PI data.
  • David Sharp, Director of the Center for Health Information Technology at the MHCC has agreed to do the session on HIT.
  • Barbara Dailey and Camille Dobson, both of CMS, will partner to do the session on Healthcare Reform
  • View the conference brochure
  • Register

WHAT'S NEW?

• MAHQ is a conference partner with the DiversityRx Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations Conference, October 18-21, 2010, Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace.  For conference and registration information, click here.
• 1 new job postings in the "Job Postings" section (July 2010)
   
• The presentations from the May 19, 2010 MAHQ Spring Educational Cofnerence, "Building Blocks to Quality Improvement," are now available for download, click here.
   
• The presentations from the October 29, 2009 MAHQ Fall Educational Conference, "GPS to Quality," are now avaialble for download, click here.
   
• The presentations from the May 22, 2009 MAHQ Spring Educational Conference, "Aligning Accreditation and Quality: The DNV Perspective," are now available for download, click here.
   
• Board of Directors' Meeting Minutes posted under the "Members Only" section of the web site (password required)
   
• July-August-September 2009 Newsletter posted, click here

IHI Open School for Health Professionals
Free courses in quality improvement and patient safety.

Partnering with Consumers (Patients and Families) to Improve Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety

Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS)

Partnership for Patient Safety® (p4ps)

Patients for Patient Safety (PFPS)

World Health Organization (WHO) World Alliance for Patient Safety

If you have any questions about MAHQ or edits to this site,
please contact Cheri Wilson, Past President and Webmaster, chwilson@jhsph.edu.

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