Creating a CQI Committee

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) is a continuous and ongoing effort to achieve measurable improvements in the efficiency, effectiveness, performance, accountability, outcomes, and other indicators of quality for state and local OHTP levels. We created an interdisciplinary CQI team consisting of data evaluators, community partners, providers/clinicians, and TAY to improve decision making by using data and team knowledge. The team focused on creating benchmarks for certain outcomes and met quarterly to review them to make data informed decisions necessary to achieve sustainable improvements. The team continues to meet quarterly and review data discussing the context of the data and potential steps to make improvements. A lesson learned for this group is to prioritize on only a few measures at a time and to focus on the causal factors that can be changed or improved upon.