TY - JOUR
T1 - The Armstrong Institute
T2 - An Academic Institute for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement, Research, Training, and Practice
AU - Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality Team
AU - Pronovost, Peter J
AU - Holzmueller, Christine G.
AU - Molello, Nancy E.
AU - Paine, Lori
AU - Winner, Laura
AU - Marsteller, Jill A.
AU - Berenholtz, Sean M.
AU - Aboumatar, Hanan J.
AU - Demski, Renee
AU - Armstrong, C. Michael
AU - Alday, Adrian
AU - Ali, Kisha
AU - Austin, J. Matthew
AU - Bailey, Lana
AU - Barasch, Noah
AU - Barbosa, Angelina
AU - Bigley, Jody
AU - Brown, Tina
AU - Burroughs, Timothy
AU - Cady-Reh, Julie
AU - Callender, Tiffany
AU - Carolan, Howard
AU - Carrington, Patrice
AU - Chang, Bickey
AU - Che, Xinxuan
AU - Clay, Jeffrey
AU - Connors, Cheryl
AU - D'Souza, Karen
AU - DiMattina, Jennifer
AU - Dietz, Aaron
AU - Edwards, Kelsey
AU - Eggleston, Parissa
AU - Fawole, Joseph Oluyinka
AU - Federowicz, Molly
AU - Gurses, Ayse
AU - Leslie, Myles
AU - Lubomski, Lisa
AU - Naqibuddin, Mohammad
AU - Pham, Julius Cuong
AU - Rawat, Nishi
AU - Rosen, Michael
AU - Sawyer, Melinda
AU - Taylor, Kathryn
AU - Thompson, David
AU - Tropello, Steven P
AU - Tsai, Terry
AU - Weaver, Sallie
AU - Weeks, Kristina
AU - Winters, Bradford
AU - Xie, Anping
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2015 by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
PY - 2015/10/1
Y1 - 2015/10/1
N2 - Academic medical centers (AMCs) could advance the science of health care delivery, improve patient safety and quality improvement, and enhance value, but many centers have fragmented efforts with little accountability. Johns Hopkins Medicine, the AMC under which the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Health System are organized, experienced similar challenges, with operational patient safety and quality leadership separate from safety and quality-related research efforts. To unite efforts and establish accountability, the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality was created in 2011. The authors describe the development, purpose, governance, function, and challenges of the institute to help other AMCs replicate it and accelerate safety and quality improvement. The purpose is to partner with patients, their loved ones, and all interested parties to end preventable harm, continuously improve patient outcomes and experience, and eliminate waste in health care. A governance structure was created, with care mapped into seven categories, to oversee the quality and safety of all patients treated at a Johns Hopkins Medicine entity. The governance has a Patient Safety and Quality Board Committee that sets strategic goals, and the institute communicates these goals throughout the health system and supports personnel in meeting these goals. The institute is organized into 13 functional councils reflecting their behaviors and purpose. The institute works daily to build the capacity of clinicians trained in safety and quality through established programs, advance improvement science, and implement and evaluate interventions to improve the quality of care and safety of patients.
AB - Academic medical centers (AMCs) could advance the science of health care delivery, improve patient safety and quality improvement, and enhance value, but many centers have fragmented efforts with little accountability. Johns Hopkins Medicine, the AMC under which the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Health System are organized, experienced similar challenges, with operational patient safety and quality leadership separate from safety and quality-related research efforts. To unite efforts and establish accountability, the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality was created in 2011. The authors describe the development, purpose, governance, function, and challenges of the institute to help other AMCs replicate it and accelerate safety and quality improvement. The purpose is to partner with patients, their loved ones, and all interested parties to end preventable harm, continuously improve patient outcomes and experience, and eliminate waste in health care. A governance structure was created, with care mapped into seven categories, to oversee the quality and safety of all patients treated at a Johns Hopkins Medicine entity. The governance has a Patient Safety and Quality Board Committee that sets strategic goals, and the institute communicates these goals throughout the health system and supports personnel in meeting these goals. The institute is organized into 13 functional councils reflecting their behaviors and purpose. The institute works daily to build the capacity of clinicians trained in safety and quality through established programs, advance improvement science, and implement and evaluate interventions to improve the quality of care and safety of patients.
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U2 - 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000760
DO - 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000760
M3 - Article
C2 - 25993278
AN - SCOPUS:84957561348
SN - 1040-2446
VL - 90
SP - 1331
EP - 1339
JO - Academic Medicine
JF - Academic Medicine
IS - 10
ER -