Frequent Questions
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center provides answers to commonly asked questions about its involvement with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation "Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health-Care Performance" initiative and grant.
What is Pursuing Perfection?
"Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health-Care Performance" is a national initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The initiative is a response to two reports from the Institute of Medicine. Those reports questioned the safety, quality, efficiency, effectiveness and fairness of the nation's health care system. They suggested the system is failing America because it is poorly designed and must be fundamentally changed.
Pursuing Perfection is intended to be a catalyst for rapid, transformational change.
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Who is Pursuing Perfection?
Cincinnati Children's has been selected, along with six other health-care organizations, to be a model for the pursuit of perfect care. Cincinnati Children's is the only pediatric facility among the organizations participating in the initiative.
Participants are expected to produce compelling examples of how health-care organizations can significantly improve. Our experience will help speed the process of change across the country.
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What is perfect care?
Perfect care is timely, efficient, effective, patient-centered, equitable and safe.
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Why is Cincinnati Children's Pursuing Perfection?
At Cincinnati Children's, the vision is to be the leader in improving child health. The Pursuing Perfection initiative is one important way we will fulfill this leadership role.
The improvements made as Cincinnati Children's pursues perfect care will help achieve the goal that is at the heart of the medical center's strategic plan: to dramatically improve the delivery of care.
The work will benefit patients and families at Cincinnati Children's, and it will have an impact on health-care delivery across the country.
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For more information about the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center's Pursuing Perfection initiative or involvement with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, please contact Uma R. Kotagal, MBBS, MSc, 513-636-0178 or uma.kotagal@cchmc.org.
