Continuing Education
In support of improving patient care, Thomas Jefferson University is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Leadership Program (QIPS)
Admissions Contact
Name:
April Smith
Position:
Admissions and Recruitment Manager
Contact Number(s):
Program Information
Name:
Mary Reich Cooper, MD, JD
Position:
Director of Healthcare Quality & Safety and Operational Excellence Programs
Email:
Mary.R.Cooper@Jefferson.edu
Name:
Ellen L. Guarnieri, RN, MHSA, CPHQ, FACHE
Position:
Associate Program Director, External Programs
Training Healthcare Leaders in Healthcare Quality & Safety
Advanced Practice Certificate (APC) Healthcare Quality & Safety - QIPS Concentration
Cohorts Begin in Fall & Spring
For more information contact Mary R. Cooper, MD, JD
Quality leaders can change the world, by providing safe, timely, effective, efficient equitable, and patient-centered care. We can teach you how!
Healthcare Quality and Safety (HQS) is the study and prevention of adverse events, suboptimal care, ineffective treatments, inefficient processes, and unnecessary clinical variation in health systems. HQS professionals are on the forefront of transitioning healthcare delivery towards high-value care.
This online program includes asynchronous coursework, live virtual sessions, and a mentored project designed to align improvement work with the participants’ practice goals and the organization’s business priorities.
The online modules are delivered as three graduate-level courses, resulting in an Advance Practice Certificate (APC), which gives participants the opportunity to continue in the Jefferson College of Population Health and complete a Graduate Certificate or Master’s Degree in Healthcare Quality and Safety or use the transferable courses for further education.
- The 6-month program consists of interactive online learning courses and monthly live virtual sessions
- The mentored project focuses on the needs of the student’s organization, resulting in organizational change
- Interprofessional content, paced and designed around the needs and constraints of busy clinical staff
- Expert practitioners teach the curriculum and focus on deployabele knowledge and skills
- Program accrues transferable graduate course credit and Category 1 and 2 CME/CEUs
Participants graduate from the program with practical knowledge and the leadership skills needed to drive the strategic execution of critical quality and safety improvements. Core content areas include:
- Change Management
- The Application of Improvement Tools and Methods
- Teamwork Science
- Data Acquisition and Analysis
- Making the Business Case for Quality
- Proactive Risk Reduction and Retrospective Cause Analysis
- Project Management
- Leadership
- Negotiation Skills
- Complexity Science
- Human Factors Engineering
- OPX 520: Change Management
- HQS 505: Advanced Tools & Methods for HQS
- HQS 509: Applied Principles of Healthcare Quality
- Sessions include case studies and real-world workplace examples
- Network with and learn from other participants facing similar challenges
- Come away with the skills and knowledge to help focus your organization’s quality and safety efforts
- Online access to coursework and materials, during and for six months after the program
Interested in Sponsoring a Cohort for Your Organization?
We work with organizations to develop customizable programs to build interprofessional knowledge and teamwork for their leaders, using experts from the sponsoring organization, Jefferson Health and JCPH, and industry to demonstrate practical real-world experience of the applying quality and safety principles. For more information, please contact Mary Reich Cooper, MD, JD.