News Archive

May 31, 2022

The MSHS Healthcare Quality Program has received accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME). We are one of the first two quality and safety programs in North America to achieve CAHME-accreditation. 

March 31, 2022

Dr. Figueiredo co-authored, “Reducing research wastage by starting off on the right foot: Optimally framing the research question,” in the March issue of Quality of Life Research.

February 28, 2022

CAHME site visit is the pinnacle of the accreditation process. Official results are expected in July.

December 31, 2021

Dr. Figueiredo wrote an article for the December issue of the NAHQ newsletter highlighting the HCQ competency-based curriculum and how student’s competency attainment is assessed.

March 31, 2021

Dr. Figueiredo wrote an article for the April issue of the NAHQ newsletter celebrating the program’s 10th anniversary.

October 31, 2019

Ken Harwood, PT, PhD, CIE, director of the George Washington University (GWU) School of Medicine and Health Sciences Healthcare Quality Program (HCQ), presented at the National Association of Healthcare Quality NEXT meeting on the positive outcomes of the GWU HCQ Program. The Program was…

August 5, 2019

Published in the July/August edition of HomeHealthcare now was an article by Therese Rochon, MS, MS, FNP-C, ACHPN and Esther Emard, MSN, RN, MSLIR entitled End-of-Life Care: Redesigning Access through Leveraging the Institute of Medicine Future of Nursing Recommendations.

June 10, 2019

The Health Care Quality Program at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) is among the first four programs to receive national certification by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME).

June 28, 2017

“Six years ago, my father was in the hospital with cancer, septic,” explained Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, FACP, assistant clinical professor of medicine at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences and senior professorial lecturer at the GW Milken Institute School…