The AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust, now part of the AHA Center for Health Innovation, recently received the Robert L. Wears Patient Safety Leadership Award. Jay Bhatt, D.O, senior vice president and chief medical officer of the AHA, accepted the award on behalf of the AHA/HRET Hospital Improvement Innovation Network, during a presentation at the QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses) Institute Regional Center at Jacksonville University in Florida. The Wears Award honors individuals and organizations that significantly impact the field of patient safety through critical analysis, research, education or knowledge dissemination. The AHA/HRET HIIN, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ largest HIIN, supports 34 hospital associations and more than 1,600 hospitals. It deploys networks of learning communities focused on clinical improvement across cross-cutting topic areas such as health disparities, patient and family engagement, clinician engagement, and diagnostic error; coaches quality leaders on performance improvement; and uses advance care teams to help hospitals and health systems rapidly improve quality and patient safety metrics. Visit http://www.hret-hiin.org for more information and free resources.

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