{"id":9819,"date":"2025-11-24T23:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=9819"},"modified":"2025-11-24T23:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:34:25","slug":"quality-isnt-just-a-checkbox-can-better-workforce-skills-drive-lower-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=9819","title":{"rendered":"Quality Isn\u2019t Just a Checkbox \u2014 Can Better Workforce Skills Drive Lower Costs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/11\/quality-healthcare-costs\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Healthcare quality isn\u2019t improving at scale, despite advances in technology, because many systems treat it as another compliance task rather than a priority. Stephanie Mercado, CEO of the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), argued that investing in workforce skills and standardizing roles can drive safer, higher-quality care while delivering measurable cost savings \u2014 as shown by successes at the VA, Kaiser Permanente and Christus Health.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/11\/quality-healthcare-costs\/\">Quality Isn\u2019t Just a Checkbox \u2014 Can Better Workforce Skills Drive Lower Costs?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare quality isn\u2019t improving at scale, despite advances in technology, because many systems treat it as another compliance task rather than a priority. Stephanie Mercado, CEO of the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), argued that investing in workforce skills and standardizing roles can drive safer, higher-quality care while delivering measurable cost savings \u2014 as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}