Medical Quality Assurance – Florida Department of Health (.gov)
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The Florida Department of Health’s Division of Medical Quality Assurance (MQA) provides health care licensing, enforcement, and regulatory trends, statistics, and information to industry partners and stakeholders through timely, accurate, and accessible reporting.
MQA facilitates licensure for more than 200 license types in more than 40 health care professions.
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MQA also complies with long-range planning requirements outlined in section 456.005, Florida Statutes, by providing concise management reports to the boards quarterly.
Required under section 456.026, Florida Statutes, the MQA Annual Report and Long-Range Plan provides health care regulatory partners and stakeholders with an overview of MQA’s efficiency and effectiveness in regulating health care practitioners and facilities in Florida. Specifically included in this report are trend analyses and information tables of MQA’s three key processes: enforcement, licensing, and information, as well as data on current and projected cash balances and adequacy of fees.
MQA’s quarterly reports include quarterly data on unlicensed activity statistics and finances, as well as health care profession complaint summaries.
Priorities for improving public health in Florida are addressed through various plans, including collaboration with partners and internal agency priorities to help achieve a healthier Florida. In addition to participating in the Long-Range Planning Program and the Agency Strategic Plan, MQA engages in long-range planning to facilitate efficient and cost-effective regulation, per section 456.005, Florida Statutes.
MQA strategic planning defines and determines its roles, priorities, and direction over three to five years. The MQA Strategic Plan sets forth what MQA plans to achieve, how it will achieve its goals, and how to know whether its goals have been achieved. As a result of long-range planning, MQA, with input from staff, boards, and licensees, effectively allocates resources, plans and prioritizes activities, and continuously improves its licensure, enforcement, and information processes to benefit health care applicants, practitioners, and consumers.
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