Health Quality Academy
Value-based improvement in healthcare
Breaking the silos in Quality Improvement (QI) in healthcare, by providing comprehensive training and coaching to all involved team members and interested parties.
Why Quality Improvement in Healthcare?
More efficient team work
By implementing improvement projects in multidisciplinary teams, the value of team-based work is enhanced. It allows all members to contribute to the best of their capacities.
Improving equity of healthcare services
By self-reflecting on the data and listening to the population that is served, the teams develop a broader understanding of social determinants of health, and the population’s needs.
Improving the patient’s experience
By designing improvements together with patients, the QI approach ensures that the voice of the patient is heard and that their experience of care is one of the main objectives.
Joy in work
By making improvements with evidence-based practice and clinical processes, the clinicians’ work becomes more meaningful and people feel they are working at their full potential.
Educational Programs
INTRODUCTORY COURSEThe Basics of Quality Improvement for Patients and the General Public
These introductory online modules on QI in clinical settings are designed for a broad audience: patients and the general public.
INTERMEDIATE COURSEThe Essentials of Quality Improvement for Healthcare Workers and Leaders
These asynchronous online modules represent a complete course on QI in healthcare setting for all important stakeholders: health care professionals, trainees, administrators and managers.
ADVANCED COURSEThe Quality Improvement Coaching Program
An advanced hybrid training program for an audience that ranges from local and regional practice facilitators to QI program directors in healthcare organizations.
About Us
We are a group of clinicians and academics who are passionate about improving our healthcare system by empowering front-line workers to make positive change.
We strongly believe that by supporting evidence-based, patient-centered, and co-designed solutions in the health sector will bring joy in work for workers and better health outcomes for the population.
The creation of the Health Quality Academy was supported financially by the Québec Ministry of Health and Social Services, with a mandate of training local and regional practice facilitators in healthcare.