Records of an ambulatory care clinic’s quality assurance program, including those of its functional components and committees as defined by the organization’s quality assurance plans, organized to evaluate matters relating to the care and treatment of patients and to improve the quality of care provided, and testimony by members on the board of directors of the ambulatory care clinic, medical and clinical staff, employees, or other committee attendees relating to activities of the quality assurance program shall be confidential and privileged and shall be protected from direct or indirect means of discovery, subpoena, or admission into evidence in any judicial or administrative proceeding.