Quality & Patient Safety

Patient Safety Initiative leadership teams for the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG), Clinical Advisory Panel (CAP) and AHA Core Team.
The Patient Safety Initiative is a collaborative, data-driven effort that gives hospitals and health systems a strong voice in the national conversation around health care safety, centering the views of clinicians, and telling the hospital and health system patient safety story.
AHA invites member hospitals and health systems to join us in elevating our long-held commitment to patient safety.
Valley Health will tackle a huge challenge in April that it has been anticipating for some time. In a single day, all patients from its Ridgewood, New Jersey, hospital will be moved to the new high-tech Valley Hospital in Paramus.
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.
Join us on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, from noon until 1 p.m. CT, for AHA’s Leadership Scan on “Bringing a ‘Systemness’ Focus to Quality, Safety and Patient Experience: How to drive repeatable improvement through uniformity and greater transparency.”
AHA Leadership Scan: A Series of Virtual Panel DiscussionsSolutions to Improve Shared Decision-Making and Informed Consent  How to engage patients with evidence-based information and insights  Tuesday, December 12, 2023 1 - 2 p.m. Eastern; noon - 1 p.m. Central; 10 - 11 a.m. Pacific…
Staffing shortages and the shifting financial landscape can make it difficult to drive continuous, repeatable improvement in quality, safety, and patient experience.  Join us as we explore the value of systemness approaches to these issues and why it is important to develop new ways of thinking to…
The American Society for Health Care Risk Management named Tracy Melina of Nuvance Health 2023 Risk Management Professional of the Year.