Is Your Board Effectively Overseeing Quality?

Feeley D, Gandhi TK, Schummers D. Is your board effectively overseeing quality? Healthcare Executive. 2019 May;34(3):58-59.

Health care boards and executive teams need clear priorities, a shared understanding of how to improve, and specific tools that tell them how they’re doing and where they can improve. This article gives an overview of IHI's Framework for Effective Board Governance of Health System Quality and recommends three guiding principles to build improvement knowledge and capacity among board members.