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AHAs Quality and Patient Safety Leadership
Strategy Regional Policy Boards June 2005
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AHA Quality and Patient Safety Leadership Strategy
Our Challenge

• Develop a new strategic direction for AHA
• Position AHA as an active leader in quality
  improvement and patient safety
• Effectively help members improve quality of care
  and patient safety

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AHA Quality and Patient Safety Leadership Strategy
Our Goals

• Build awareness
• Create a policy environment that facilitates
  improvement
• Develop recommended priorities and staging for
  quality improvement efforts
• Promote expectations measures of field
  performance
• Provide the best clearinghouse of strategies and
  solutions

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AHA Quality and Patient Safety Leadership Strategy
Our Strengths

• Leader
• Convener
• Importer/Exporter
• Assembler

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AHA Quality and Patient Safety Leadership
Strategy
New Concept The Center
Centralize AHA quality and patient safety
activities in a single focal point that is
distinct and easily accessible to members
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AHA Quality and Patient Safety Leadership
Strategy
The Center

• Be a collaborative resource
• Harvest and share the leading edge knowledge
  of others
• Help members navigate the avalanche of
  products, services and initiatives
• Recommend top priorities for the field
• Create the best clearinghouse of strategies and
  solutions
• Organize strategies and solutions for a wide
  range of member users
• Share successful practices among leaders in the
  field

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AHA Quality and Patient Safety Leadership
Strategy
Action Plan

• The member case for action
• Strategic framework
• Interview strategy
• Environmental scan
• Products and services inventory
• National Advisory Board

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AHA Quality and Patient Safety Leadership
Strategy
Interview Strategy

• AHA Board
• Members
• Large/mid-sized/small
• Systems
• Premier/VHA members
• Non-Premier/VHA members
• IHI,Premier,VHA
• State Associations
• Outside Experts (e.g., Berwick, Batalden,
  James, Nash)
• Outside Consultants
• AHA Staff Leadership

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AHA Quality and Patient Safety Leadership
Strategy
Environmental Scan

• IHI
• Premier
• VHA
• JCAHO
• State Hospital Associations
• Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs)
• Leadership Institute
• Greeley Company
• AHA

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AHA Quality and Patient Safety Leadership
Strategy
National Advisory Board

• Provide AHA with respected and nationally
  recognized leaders in the area of quality and
  patient safety
• Process that informs key content and
  organization of The Center
• Opportunity to link and coordinate with
  other key groups