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• Getting boards on board: Engaging governing boards in quality and safety
  As hospitals seek to drive rapid quality improvement, boards have an opportunity — and a significant responsibility — to make better quality of care the organization’s top priority.
• Getting boards on-board: Leadership engagement key to reaching quality goals
  Reaching the point where boards drive the health care quality agenda occurs over time through a variety of mechanisms, according to quality experts.
• How-to Guide: Governance Leadership (Get Boards on Boards)
  This How-to Guide recommends that boards of trustees in all hospitals undertake six key governance leadership activities to improve quality and reduce harm in their hospitals.
• Leadership Guide to Patient Safety
  This white paper presents eight steps that are recommended for leaders to follow to achieve patient safety and high reliability in their organizations.
• Leadership Response to a Sentinel Event: Respectful, Effective Crisis Management
  A collection of leadership resources assembled from organizations that experienced and learned from a serious organizational event, most often a significant medical error, that also describe how they managed the crisis and developed safer systems in response.

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• How-to Guide: Governance Leadership (Get Boards on Boards)
  
  This How-to Guide recommends that boards of trustees in all hospitals undertake six key governance leadership activities to improve quality and reduce harm in their hospitals.
• Questions to Ask When Forming a Board Quality Committee
  
  This list of questions, developed by Jim Reinertsen, MD, is designed to help think through the key decisions involved with forming a Board Quality Committee and formalizing the processes by which the committee will do its work.
• Guidelines for Using Patient Stories with Boards of Directors
  
  Guidelines for how to effectively use patient stories to engage boards of directors in quality improvement work.
• Crosswalk of Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Leadership Standards
  
  This matrix cross-references 2009 Joint Commission Leadership Standards with the updated 2010 Joint Commission standards and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services standards.

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• Profiles in Improvement: Meg Baxter of Maine Medical Center
  
  Who's improving health care? People are — at hospitals and in office practices all across the US and internationally. Listen to the story of Meg Baxter of Maine Medical Center.
• Quality and Patient Safety on the Radio
  
  This series of downloadable podcasts on XM Radio's ReachMD taps into the thinking and activity of the quality improvement movement and features IHI experts and leaders.

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• Passport Exclusive: Leading Large-Scale Change
  
  Join Dr. James Anderson, President and CEO of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, as he shares his experiences on leading large-scale, transformation changes.