Board Leadership in Clinical Quality: A US Perspective

Jim Reinertsen describes how a hospital board can more effectively oversee clinical quality and patient safety. This chapter is excerpted from a policy document, developed by the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) in Canada, that outlines the board’s role and responsibilities for improving quality of care and leading the quality agenda.

IHI Innovation Series white paper

The Second Edition (2008) of this white paper incorporates IHI's continued learning on what it takes to achieve results in quality and safety at the level of entire organizations and care systems, particularly on the subject of execution, provides specific examples of the field application of each leverage point, and describes the relationship between the leverage points and other IHI leadership frameworks.  

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Healthcare Executive Series on Leadership and Safety

Read articles in the Healthcare Executive series on key leadership strategies that can improve patient safety:

• The key to winning the Campaign
• Reducing harm to patients
• Patients and families: Powerful new partners for health care and for caregivers
• Leadership's role in execution
• Engaging physicians
• Transforming leadership infrastructure through widespread board engagement
• A three-part approach to patient safety: Balanced strategy improves value, reduces costs
• Could it happen here? Learning from other organizations' safety efforts

The Triple Aim: Care, health, and cost

Improving the US health care system requires simultaneous pursuit of three aims: improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health care. Preconditions for this include the enrollment of an identified population, a commitment to universality for its members, and the existence of an organization (an "integrator") that accepts responsibility for all three aims for that population

Read the article in Health Affairs