The Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP) is a population-based child and adolescent health services research and quality improvement program of the University of Vermont.
VCHIP's mission is to optimize the health of Vermont's children by initiating and supporting measurement-based efforts to enhance private and public child health practice.
Research has shown that clinicians want to provide excellent care for their patients - care based on the most up-to-date evidence and best practice that is accessible, family-centered, comprehensive, and coordinated. However, most clinicians recognize that current clinical systems, whether in practice, clinic, or hospital, do not allow them to provide excellent care all of the time. VCHIP provides an established mechanism for Vermont's clinicians to continually improve the care they offer children and families throughout Vermont.
VCHIP supports clinicians in their efforts to improve care by providing the tested tools and techniques of quality improvement. Much can be achieved through the understanding and application of basic quality improvement principles. From this foundation VCHIP actively assists clinicians in incorporating these ideas into today's busy practices. This is accomplished through:
Measurement-based assessments of current care delivery for specific populations.
One-on-one and group support with VCHIP’s quality improvement facilitators to identify specific achievable improvements in current office systems of care.
Active collaboration with others seeking to make improvements (other clinicians, state government, and private insurers).
|
