Quality Enhancement in Developmental Disabilities

Quality Enhancement in Developmental Disabilities
Author: Valerie J. Bradley
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2003
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

As person-centered services and supports become more prevalent, people with disabilities are enjoying more choices and opportunities - making it challenging to ensure the quality of every service offered. This timely book helps meet that challenge. Diverse contributors, including researchers, care providers, policy-makers, self-advocates, and family members, combine their expertise to help readers understand the changed expectations of people with disabilities and their families - and the resulting challenges to quality enhancement clarify the roles of Medicaid and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services address health and safety issues, including investigation of abuse, neglect, and death design databases that track outcomes and target areas for service improvement translate quality information into reliable quality enhancement approaches manage staffing challenges like recruitment, retention, and professional development consider future recommendations and policy directions Building on Bradley & Bersani's Quality Assurance for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities, this important resource clarifies the shift toward self-determination and individually tailored supports - and shows professionals in the human services field how to enhance service quality in this rapidly changing world.

Quality and Excellence in Human Services

Quality and Excellence in Human Services
Author: Paul Dickens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1994-05-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

A comprehensive treatment concerned with the topical issue of quality assessment and management psychology. Develops the issue of quality by examining work done in industry and services then applies this work to clinical psychology. Covers such related topics as outcome measures, clinical audit, patient satisfaction and the concept of quality of life. Examples are drawn from a wide range of clincial psychology situations and health care settings.