Advance your career in health care quality and patient safety leadership, management, or research through GW's innovative online master's program in Health Care Quality.
As more information about the structure, process, and outcomes of health care emerges, and the science of quality expands, quality improvement is becoming a distinct area of expertise. GW's Health Sciences programs, in partnership with the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), developed graduate programs to meet the growing need for quality and patient safety specialists who can grow and sustain a culture of continuous improvement. Graduates will be prepared for quality and patient safety leadership, management, and research positions within health care organizations or policy agencies, and be able to:
- Develop, implement, and evaluate quality and patient safety improvement initiatives
- Learn strategies to lead organizational change toward a quality-focused culture
- Translate national quality expectations into daily operations
- Apply processes and tools to measure, analyze, and interpret quality improvement data
- Design and implement information technology systems to support quality assurance
- Conduct research to drive clinical and operational decision-making
The program's versatile distance-based format allows health care professional to advance their education while working full-time, without sacrificing a rigorous curriculum and access to the resources and experts at GW. Students are invited to attend select on-campus experiences, during which they can interact with faculty and other students.
