Humana sharpens quality work - to strengthen operations and prevent serious incidents
The care company Humana AB introduces a new and improved quality index (Humana Quality Index). The groupwide new index incorporates an additional range of relevant measurement areas to cover further important aspects of how we conduct care. The purpose is to strengthen Humana's operations, prevent serious incidents, and provide added value to our clients.
– As one of the largest care providers in the Nordics, we have an obligation to strive towards an increased standard in the care sector. To achieve this, we need to sharpen our quality work further and therefore we invest in more research, analysis and follow-up. The new quality index is an important part of our development work, says Johanna Rastad, President and CEO of Humana.
– Measuring does not in itself provide improvement, but it is an absolute prerequisite for knowing where improvements are needed. With the new Humana Quality index we are taking a big step in the right direction. The new index makes it possible to get closer to the results for the individual and eventually we can produce more performance measures, which is an important purpose of this change, says Humana's Quality Director Eva Nilsson Bågenholm.
Since 2017, Humana has measured and reported quality according to our own quality model and own quality index; Human Quality Index, HQI. The introduction of HQI has been of great value to Humana as it has provided an opportunity to follow up on the quality of care. In order to further sharpen the quality follow-up and improve the efforts for the individual, Humana's quality organisation has during the past year developed a new HQI that includes more and better indicators.
The new HQI consists of twelve indicators (compared to seven previously) and thus covers more aspects. All the indicators reflect relevant and critical parts of the quality work and together they give a good picture of the quality in the operations. The new index will be introduced in the first quarter of 2022.
Here you can read more about Humana's quality work and the new index (HQI)
For more information please contact:
Patrik Silverudd, pressmanager Humana
patrik.silverudd@humana.se
+46 766-112 111
This is what Humana Quality Index (HQI) measures:
| What we want to achieve (purpose) | What we measure |
| 1. Satisfied customers and clients | Customer satisfaction index |
| 2. Proper support, care or treatment to customers and clients | Percentage of individual plans followed up |
| 3. A safe service delivered | Number of critical deviations reported to authority |
| 4. Delivery in accordance with legislation | Percentage of inspections from authorities with serious remarks |
| 5. Ensuring systematic learning | Percentage of repeated deviations |
| 6. Proper handling of personal data | Percentage of personal data incidents reported to authorities |
| 7. Satisfied employees | Employee satisfaction index |
| 8. Employee wellbeing and health | Sick leave rate |
| 9. Safe working environment | Number of incidents and occupational injuries reported to authorities |
| 10. Continuous skills development | Percentage of employees having completed training in the learning portal |
| 11. High quality education | Qualitative follow-up of each training |
| 12. Employees contribute to business development | Number of improvement proposals |
Humana is a leading Nordic care company providing services within individual and family care, personal assistance, elderly care and special service housing in accordance with LSS. Humana has 16,000 employees in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark providing care for 9,000 individuals and working to achieve the vision “Everyone is entitled to a good life”. In 2020, Humana’s operating revenue was SEK 7,797m. Humana is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and the company’s headquarters are located in Stockholm. Read more about Humana on: https://www.humanagroup.com/