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• Framework for Effective Board Governance of Health System Quality
  This white paper presents an actionable framework with the core processes needed for effective board governance of all dimensions of health system quality; an assessment tool; and support guides for three central knowledge areas for trustee oversight of quality.
• How-to Guide: Governance Leadership (Get Boards on Board)
  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.
• 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.