I looking forward to Becker's 14th Annual Meeting April 8-11, 2024. I am excited to join moderator Mackenzie Bean on a panel with fellow healthcare leaders, Verghese Mathew, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.S.C.A.I., David Levine, MD, and Carol Rozelle, DNP to discuss 'Prioritizing Patient Safety and Quality as Healthcare Evolves' on April 9.
Quality and safety are paramount to a health system's strategic priorities and values. These strategic priorities and values must be central to the overall foundation of promoting clinical excellence, zero harm (high reliability), operational efficiency, and innovation. As a physician leader, I often speak about one of the reasons I became a physician was to provide the best care to heal and promote healthy lives, while doing "no harm". Although, quality and safety are more nuanced, this is simply what it means to drive quality and safety efforts in a health system.
Looking ahead, the path forward for hospitals and health systems requires leaders to be the architects, builders, and catalysts that promote the collaborative change environments for innovation. Furthermore, we must reframe our analyses and efforts with an equity lens to advance quality so we can design strategies and interventions to meet patients where and how they engage and intersect with our health systems.
Congratulations Cody on winning the DAISY Award!