Tool Improves Safety Leadership Engagement
Indiana hospitals are being offered a free opportunity to evaluate board and leadership engagement in quality and safety improvement. A new Web-based survey, the Hospital Leadership and Quality Assessment Tool, helps hospitals to identify and improve leadership structures and processes that are associated with high-performance in clinical quality measures. Participating hospitals will receive a hospital-level HLQAT report that provides valuable benchmarks. Hospitals should repeat the survey in 12-18 months. To participate, hospitals should assemble a team of at least 13 people, comprising board members, c-level executives, and clinical executives. Interested hospitals should contact Betsy Lee, director, Indiana Patient Safety Center, at blee@ihaconnect.org or 317/423-7795.