In the new era of accountable care, the demands to improve quality, reduce cost, and improve the patient experience confront senior health care leaders at every turn and in every setting. 

We've updated the Executive Quality Academy with new thinking and recent examples to help executives and their teams accelerate the rate of improvement and meet the challenges of the new era of accountable care. Updated components of this course include:

• A new IHI Leadership Model for Improvement based on the experiences of hundreds of health care organizations

• Expansion of concepts and examples beyond the traditional hospital walls - including learning from organizations pursuing the IHI Triple Aim

• A new focus on how leaders drive and maintain patient-centered organizational cultures

• Leadership strategies to eliminate waste (MUDA) from support and clinical care processes, critical to organizational sustainability in an era of declining revenue and reimbursement

• A stronger focus on leadership and innovation

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Why Attend the IHI Executive Quality Academy?

Health care CEOs once could argue that their role was to get the finances, facilities, and capital investments right, and that it was the job of the doctors and nurses to deliver quality care. Not anymore. Leaders are responsible for all patient outcomes and are under pressure to produce both high quality and high value. While it's important to improve quality in one condition, or reduce costs in one department, the new health care environment demands system-level improvement across multiple dimensions of quality, patient outcomes, and organizational performance.  This pressure, when combined with early versions of "pay-for-performance" initiatives such as Bridges to Excellence and the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project, led by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services/Premier, Inc., has made clinical quality performance a strategic imperative — and no longer just a regulatory requirement, or the "right thing to do." In other words, clinical quality performance is no longer delegable to "the quality people."

Responsibility for measured performance in clinical quality and safety rests squarely on the shoulders of each member of the senior executive team, regardless of whether or not they have a clinical background.

How Does the Academy Work?

This is an intensive learning and action planning session attended by up to five members of the senior executive team, including the CEO. We strongly encourage attendance by your CEO to fully maximize the value of the program. Teams who attend without their CEO find it more difficult to implement revised plans upon returning to their organization. We also encourage the attendance of one or more key board members, such as the incoming or current Board Chair, or the Chair of the Board’s Quality Committee.