Starr Earns Healthcare Quality Certification

Erin Starr RN, Director of Quality at Jefferson Community Health Center in Fairbury, is now a professional-quality medical care certificate (CPHQ.)

The CPHQ is the only accredited professional certification quality health care. It incorporates all the knowledge in the profession of the quality of care, including:

• Strategic and operational leadership roles and inmanagement
• Information management, including design and data collection, measurement and analysis, and communication
• Measure and improve performance  quality, including planning, implementation and evaluation and training
• Strategic and operational tasks in patient safety

The program is accredited by the National Accrediting Commission of the bodies of excellence certification Institute in Washington, DC

Starr received a grant from the National Association of quality health care to help cover the cost of examining CPHQ. With the award, she had a year to complete and pass the exam.

In March 2015, the Association for Healthcare Quality Nebraska, risk and security, the state organization, organized a course opinion CPHQ in Omaha. They had 62 participants representing 11 states and two countries. In August 2016, which welcomed a review of CPHQ course, and 27 participants.