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In many organizations, the Board of Directors is ultimately accountable for quality and patient safety. However, the actual work of carrying out and monitoring quality and patient safety efforts often lies elsewhere. In your organization, who is primarily responsible for carrying out quality and safety initiatives?
1. clinical supervisors (RN/or Advanced degree)
2. not sure
3. VP of Quality
4. The Clinical Board of Governors (comprised of mostly MDs), not the Community Board of Directors.
5. Risk manager
6. Medical Director of Quality Managemenet
7. Quality Committee - mostly nursing
8. Multidisciplinary QI Committee
9. Medical Director
10. President
11. Quality Improvement Committee
12. Chief Quality Officer
13. chief quality officer
14. Physician Vice-President of Quality
15. Diffuse. Qaluty efforts report to COO and CMO.
16. COO
17. informal--we're a private practice physicians' group
18. me
19. VP Quality and Patient Safety
20. quality systems reporting directly to the CEO and BOD
21. VPMA, VP nursing and CQI dept
22. Quality Management Department
23. VP Quality
24. all of the above
25. Vice Presidents
26. Chief Nursing Officer
27. Chief Quality Officer (VP)
28. na
29. chief safety officer
30. Chief Quality Officer
31. QM
32. CQO
33. Director of Quality
34. VP of quality
35. Physician members are responsible for their own quality and safety
36. vp, quality
37. Executive Board
38. Chief Quality & Medical Information Officer
39. Asst VP for Quality
40. we are in the midst of an attempt at better attribution of the responsibility so that all of us are accountable
41. not sure
42. with physician leader support
43. President of Medical Affairs
44. VP Quality (RN)
45. Senior VP of Quality and safety
46. Hospital administrative personnel
47. VP of Quality-a physician
48. Chief Medical Officer for Quality
49. Chief Operating Officer, CMO, and Chief Nursing Officers
50. quality departement
51. Veterans Health Administration
52. Medical Driector for Patient Safety and Quality
53. UM/QM Committee and medical management at the direction of the BOD
54. local process owners
55. Quality Officer
56. Medical staff with aid of Performance Improvement
57. vice president
58. Combination of the above thru 2 multidisciplinary committees, one Board and one in operations
59. quality director
60. Chief Safety Officer (MD)
61. VP of Quality
62. Chief of Staff
63. The Quality Department for initiating/implementing/educating/ and monitoring. Nursing staff is the most active in carrying out the initiatives. We develop lots of "safety nets" to avoid the docs
64. Chief Nursing Officer
65. PI director
66. Performance Improvement Department
67. CMO and CNO
68. Agency Director
69. compliance officer
70. Medical Director
71. VP of Quality
72. dont know
73. Vice President ,Clinical Quality and Patient Safety
74. Hospital Operations and Medical Director for the system
75. Quality dept; headed by a nurse; supported by Medical Director
76. Chief Quality Officer
77. risk management
78. VP of Patient Safety and Quality
79. VP for Quality
80. ALL OF THE ABOVE
81. External management group
82. Chief of Quality and Safety (physician)
83. Quality Director
84. VP for Performane Improvement
85. Don't know
86. VP medical affairs
87. PI Dept
88. Chief Quality Officer
89. CMO and Q/A director
90. VPMA and Quality/Risk Management Department
91. Risk Management
92. VP of Quality and Safety
93. vp quality
94. quality management group
95. all fo the above - CMO chairs quality council
96. Quality management staff
97. chief quality officer
98. COO
99. Statewide medical director
100. Medical Director of Quality and Patient Safety
101. sr. VP of quality and safety
102. all of the above.
103. multidisciplinary team
104. VP for Quality & Outcomes
105. Quality and safety dept woking with CMO,CNOand COO and Medical staff
106. Uncertain
107. Amorphous blend of COO and Med Staff. BOD is distant and hands off here.
108. Director of Quality
109. We have a safety Czar (actually a Czarina)
110. Chief Quality Oficer
111. hospitalwide performance improvement committee
112. VP Quality
113. CQO
114. no one
115. Dedicated staff most of whom are nurses
116. Quality and Service Excellence
117. Chief of Safety and Risk Manager
118. COO & Dir of Quality
119. Medical and nursing staff
120. Operational VPs
121. Nursing staff primarily, but the new CMO is now involving the medical staff
122. VP of Quality
123. CQO
124. The Administrative staff is ultimately responsible, but the second tier admins are the ones with their feet on the ground. There is physician involvement, but in an advisory capacity to engage MDs
125. management team
126. Quality Department
127. QA department
128. Quality Dept.
129. Jointly shared by Medical and Nursing staffs
130. Chief Quality Officer reporting to board
131. We have a formal quality committee and the chairperson of that committe is primarily responsible. Role of CEO is to set priorities and provide leadership for that committee.
132. VPMA
133. don't really know
134. Physicians in charge of Quality & Safety initiatives
135. SVP, Care Management
136. Quality of care Committee of the Board
137. Quality Department
138. don't know
139. Came management Department
140. Vice President of quality/pt safety
141. office of qulaity improvement
142. committee
143. The Physicians Council
144. Quality committee
145. COO and Medical Director
146. Medical Director w/support RN staff
147. CMO and CNO with joint responsibility
148. VP for Quality and Compliance (a nurse)
149. Who knows?
150. Quality Department with VP
151. Sr. VP Quality and Pt Safety
152. medical director for safety
153. Ultimately it is the CEO but CMO and Director of teh QSD Quality Services Div, are responsible for day to day management
154. Board via Qual. Committee/Admin
155. A team that reports directly to the BOD
156. Chief Quality Officer
157. Cahirman or Owner
158. ultimately the board is responsible. the implementation is CME, quality management, performance improvement steering council and chartered teams
159. Everyone and no one.
160. VP Quality (RN)
161. rn, JD
162. Each department manages its own QA program and have varying levels of commitment and completeness of a QA program
163. CQO
164. Board Quality (subcommittee of the Board)
165. VP of Quality
166. CMO and nursing staff. having an entirely voluntary medical staff means their involvement is limited.
167. chief quality officer
168. Admin MDs and Managers
169. VP for Quality
170. Unfortunately there is not anyone person charged with this.
171. Medical Director for Quality
172. Safety officer
173. Team effort: MDs and admin staff
174. VP Quality
175. Patient Safety Officer, a dedicated physician
176. Safety officer
177. hospital departments reporting to administration
178. VP of Quality
179. A team of physicians and public health trained administrators.
180. Performance improvement staff
181. Quality officer
182. Really a joint effort. Want to get Medical Staff more involved.
183. Medical chair of quality (a physician) and the director of quality and risk management (a nurse) work as a team and report to the CEO and various other quality directors in the parent organization
184. Patient Safety Committee
185. Director of Quality
186. CQO
187. Hand picked administrative staff
188. VP Quality Improvement and Outcomes
189. owners/partnership
190. front-line clinicians
191. Subcomittee of the Board
192. No one primary -diffused throughout organization
193. Medical Directors
194. Medical Executive Committee
195. in flux with resignation of CMO
196. Sr. VP of Quality (MD)
197. VP Quality
198. I believe this question misses the point of quality improvement as a process and a culture wherein everyone is responsible Primarily!!!
199. COO, Care management
200. Division of Health Care Quality
201. Quality Director
202. Medical Executive Committee
203. VP Quality (reporting to CMO)
204. VPMA
205. qi director
206. Multidisciplinary Quality Performance Improvement Committee
207. Quality Office under the Chief of Hospital Services
208. Medical Staff Vice-President
209. quality dept- variable reporting
210. quality dept
211. VP for Quaity management who reports to CEO. CMO also has this on his agenda.
212. Physicians, nurses and network representatives
213. Senior VP Patient Safety and Quality
214. VPMA
215. Performance Improvement Department
216. Quality Mgmt., CMO, Nursing
217. PI is separate department
218. CQO
219. CQO and division of quality
220. Comm of docs and staff
221. diffuse and unclear
222. Chief Quality Officer
223. COO, Quality Comm
224. chief of staff
225. VP Quality