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Quality and Patient Safety Blogs

Blogs from the AHA Trustee Services on quality and patient safety.

Trustees Have an Important Role in Age-Friendly Care that Benefits All Patients

An unswerving commitment age-friendly quality and patient safety principles improves outcomes for older patients and patients of all ages.

Clear Lines of Authority Help Power Health Care Excellence

Blurred roles and responsibilities are among the obstacles that can impede a hospital or health care organization’s path to improvement.

Reimagining health care: How two systems are leading the charge in quality and safety

Read about the 2025 Quest for Quality Prize winner and finalist — and apply for the 2026 award
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Hospitals Work to Improve Patient Safety Every Day

Hospitals and health systems across the country vary in size, as well as the types of services and specialties they offer. They also offer many different programs to meet the unique needs of the communities they serve.
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Delivering Safe, Quality Care to Patients Is the Top Priority for Hospitals and Health Systems

The 2025 AHA Leadership Summit wrapped up on July 22, and as always, it was energizing and inspiring to connect with so many talented and dedicated people whose passion and vision for health care promise great things for the future.

Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Advancing Health and Building Trust with Lynn Hanessian and Robert Trestman, M.D.

In this Leadership Dialogue, Lynn Hanessian, former chief health strategist for Edelman, which recently released its 2025 Trust Barometer, and AHA Board Member Robert Trestman, M.D., chair of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Carilion Clinic., join Tina Becker Freese to discuss the importance of trust and how it has evolved in recent years.
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Can Collaborative Efforts to Improve Device Design Improve Safety?

The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Association for Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) brought together a small group composed of hospital and health system leaders, device manufacturers and policy leaders to explore how to make devices safer by design.
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Prioritizing Patient Safety and Quality Care Every Day for Everyone

This week marks five years since President Trump declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency and related lockdowns across the globe turned the world we knew upside down.

Ensuring Access to Quality Care for Patients in Rural America

For the roughly 60 million Americans living in rural areas, their local hospital is the lifeblood of their community.