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Q&A highlights how board rounding improves accountability, patient safety
In a Q&A featured in the latest AHA Trustee Insights newsletter, leaders from UP Health System — Portage in Michigan discuss their process for implementing board rounding as a board orientation tool, providing trustees an opportunity to engage with front-line workers and better understand the organization's patient safety culture.
The Board’s Role in Quality Oversight and Patient Safety
As the role of the board in quality and performance improvement comes into focus, additional support and education in QAPI will ensure that all patients receive safe, high-quality care.
AHA podcast: Hospital Boards Lay the Foundation for Quality and Safety
In a new "Safety Speaks" conversation, Jamie Orlikoff, president of Orlikoff & Associates, Inc. and AHA national adviser on governance and leadership, discusses the role hospital boards can play in supporting quality and safety within their health systems, and how board members who aren't clinicians or health care administrators can make a difference in patient safety.
AHA podcast: Unifying Hospital Boards on Quality and Safety
In a new “Safety Speaks” conversation, Harry S. Smith, board chair of Valley Health System and member of the AHA Committee on Governance, discusses how Valley Health rearranged its governance system to ensure that quality and patient safety standards were being met across the board.
Chair File: Supporting the Board’s Pivotal Role in Advancing Health
Today’s hospital and health system board members collaborate with leadership to address workforce shortages, recommend ways to mitigate cybersecurity risks, discuss the pros and cons of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, and provide strategic guidance on quality, safety and many other critical issues.
Trustees Can Help Lead the Way to Age-Friendly Health Systems
Working in close partnership with the American Hospital Association, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Catholic Health Association of the United States, the John A. Hartford Foundation has strongly supported the creation and spread of the idea of age-friendly health systems
Obituary: AHA Board Member Norvell ‘Van’ Coots
AHA Board Member Norvell ‘Van’ Coots, M.D., a renowned health care and military leader, passed away last week. He was 65.
Chairman’s File: Mentoring the next generation of health care leaders
Tomorrow’s health care leaders can get a big boost from a new AHA program designed to develop and accelerate their ability to successfully lead America’s hospitals and health systems into the next decade and beyond.