The Palliative Care Quality Collaborative (PCQC) hosted its third annual virtual Quality Matters Conference (QMC) November 20-22, 2024. QMC is a 3-day virtual event that brings together thought leaders to share best practices, opportunities, and innovations that promote high-quality palliative care.
Each year, PCQC designates a new theme for the conference that is imperative to quality. The theme for this year’s conference was Identifying Various Perspectives of Quality, with the goal of bringing interprofessional subject matter experts together to have conversations where we recognize that quality looks different depending on where a person may sit in the health system.
The objectives of the discussions during QMC 2024 included
- what quality means at each level of an organization
- what differences exist in enacting quality between these levels
- how we can come together to synthesize these perspectives to create unity throughout organizations.
New this year, PCQC offered a 2-hour Quality Improvement Basics Workshop as part of registration. During this session, participants learned fundamental quality improvement skills to improve upon their operational and care processes.
Regardless of experience in quality, participants received actionable skills to promote a culture of quality within their program. The jointly accredited conference welcomed all members of the field to learn about quality standards and improvement skills through expert presentations, peer networking, and participatory workshop formats. Conference details for QMC are available on PCQC’s website at www.palliativequality.org.