historical evolution of a healthcare quality improvement program

Explain the historical evolution of a healthcare quality improvement program. How have performance challenges, healthcare reform efforts, and the need for cost containment contributed to this development? Select the areas you find most important to improve quality and create performance targets and explain why.

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Explain the historical evolution of a healthcare quality improvement program.
Examine how performance challenges, healthcare reform efforts, and the need for cost containment contributed to this development.
Select the areas most important to improve quality and create performance targets and explain why.
This Assessment should be a Microsoft Word (minimum 700 words) document, in addition to the title and reference pages.

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be typed in Times New Roman, 12 -point font;
include correct citations
be written in Standard English with no spelling or punctuation errors; and
include correct references at the bottom of the last page.