Chair File: Recognizing Leadership and Innovation in Health Care Quality

More than 20 years ago, the Institute of Medicine — now the National Academy of Medicine — defined quality in health care across six aims: safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and patient-centered.

Each year, the AHA Quest for Quality Prize recognizes hospitals and health systems that have committed to and are making significant progress toward providing exceptional care to patients based on those six “STEEEP” aims.

Main Line Health in Bryn Mawr, Pa., is the 2023 recipient of the AHA Quest for Quality Prize. Receiving Citations of Merit are Atlantic Health System in Morristown, N.J., and University of Chicago Medicine in Chicago. Leaders from all three organizations received their awards during a presentation at the AHA Leadership Summit last week.

These health care organizations have demonstrated innovative models of care, services and collaboration to provide excellent care to all patients and families.

Read more about these organizations’ outstanding work in quality performance improvement in the AHA publication.

Your organization can be recognized as a quality leader too. Visit AHA.org to download the 2024 application — and apply as a hospital or a system. Submissions are due Sept. 12.

Congratulations to this year’s AHA Quest for Quality Prize recipients for exceptional leadership and innovation improving quality and advancing health.