Leadership Driving Safety and Quality

Leaders in health care play a large role in successful achievement of quality and safety goals through an overt commitment to both quality and safety, fostering a culture of quality improvement and clear and consistent communication of goals and plans.Specific training for frontline providers, managers, and staff is critical in developing skilled leaders with a quality and safety orientation. Many models exist for organizational leadership development, and exemplars of quality and safety leadership have openly shared the keys to their successes for others to raise the bar.