Who should be part of quality improvement (QI) teams?
Everybody at the individual provider or organizational level. At some point, everyone in your organization should be engaged in a QI project team. You want to avoid having the same people on the teams, except in small programs where staffing may be an issue. Larger programs should consider all staff persons when assigning team members. For statewide or citywide initiatives, the quality management (QM) planning team should include all appropriate stakeholders who represent QM efforts at the agency and planning level. This should include: representatives from all providers, Planning Council representation, Consortium representation, QI experts in your system, administrative agency staff responsible for QM activities, Information Systems (IS) staff, and representation from local agency Consumer Advisory Boards or Persons Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWH/A) committees attached to the Planning Council or Consortium.
