Health Care Improvement Projects
What are Health Care Improvement Projects?
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) ensures that board-certified pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists have successfully completed accredited training and continue to expand their medical knowledge, improve their practice and increase patient safety.
As part of the MOC process, physicians are required to engage in health care improvement projects designed to assess and improve the quality of patient care and processes that will lead to improved child health and health care. Each physician must go through the MOC process every five years. Within that time period, physicians must complete health care improvement projects through approved MOC project sponsors.
Cook Children’s is a health care improvement projects approved sponsor under the American Board to Pediatrics (ABP). We provide health care improvement projects to Cook ABP-boarded physicians that wish to complete this part of their MOC locally. Being a sponsor reinforces our commitment to the improvement of health outcomes for children, adolescents, and young adults while also meeting the public's increasing demands for safe and effective care and transparency.