Pathways for Health Equity Quality Improvement Strategy

Quality improvement strategy The 18 month Quality Improvement Strategy includes 3 months preparation, 12 months intervention, 3 months local knowledge translation. The intervention includes Readiness Consultations to assist in understanding available resources to address and adopt diabetes and chronic disease prevention and care strategies. Community teams receive a series of 3 workshops (in-person/virtual) followed by action periods where the team carry out and evaluate PDSAs they develop to improve diabetes care. Coaching is provided by Western during the 3-4 month action periods. FNDSS is a webbased secure community portal system for communities to develop a diabetes registry/surveillance system and generate reports and plan QI initiatives.