About Qulturum
– the Center for Improvement in Healthcare
Qulturum is a center for development of improvement knowledge and renewal in healthcare. Qulturum is organizational a part of Jönköping County Council, an organization with the responsibility to provide health care, medical treatment and dental service for the residents of Jönköping county which is located in the south of Sweden.
Qulturum is not only a local resource for improvement in healthcare, but also engaged in several improvement activities both on a regional, national and also international level.
As a center for learning and innovation, Qulturum focus on developing improvement knowledge concerning patients, co-operation, interprofessional teams, management and the organization of healthcare.
The following strategic areas are, by Jönköping County Council, identified as the most important to improve in health care and are thought to increase the value for both patients and the population: 
- Learning an innovation (including leading and leadership)
- Access and how we treat our patients with respect and caring
- Prevention and Self-care
- Cooperation and flow
- Clinical improvement
- Patient safety
- Medication
- Good financies and Reliability
Qulturum also has close connections with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Boston, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and clinicalmicrosystem.org as well as other organizations working with improvements in healthcare and learning.
The Qulturum Residence
The Qulturum Residence is a conference center as well as home to the following units:
- Qulturum, the Center for Improvement in Healthcare
- Futurum, the Academy for Health and Care
- Unit of Research and Development in primary care
- Primary care direction center
Maps
Find your way to Qulturum (pdf)
From the train station to Qulturum (pdf)
Network about Microsystem thinking
The History of Quality improvements in Jönköping - read more:
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The Development (pdf) of Quality as Business Strategy in Jönköping County Council
- The Future is Now (pdf) a report about the journey we have made with Quality as Business Strategy, May 2005
System Measure
System Measure is a tool for quality and strategic leadership.
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Poster about System measures (pdf) – why they are useful and how we use them
(with data to April -06).
Presentations about Improvement work
A handful of presentations made by Qulturum coworkers including presentations from Quality Forum in Orlando, December 2007, in Barcelona, April 2007, Prague 2006 and from Nashville March 25-27th 2007.
