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The mission of the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety & Efficiency is to create healthcare systems that ensure every patient receives the highest quality of care while avoiding harm, minimizing inefficiencies, and developing leaders in quality and safety.


Transformation, Not Just Education

At IHQSE our overarching goal is to fundamentally improve the care provided to patients by developing people, improving care processes and building higher-achieving organizations. 



In other words, our goal is to transform:

to transform

INDIVIDUALS

We develop the capacity of frontline clinicians to drive change.

to transform

PROCESSES

We drive improvements in clinical care processes, leading to better outcomes.

to transform

ORGANIZATIONS

 We help build higher-performing systems through sustained changes.


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Results that Matter

Our formula for transformation combines expert training, intensive, tailored coaching, a deep catalog of successful projects to tap into, and a relentless drive for outcomes.

500+ qi/ps projects completed
$100 million in reduced inefficiencies
3,000 episodes of harm avoided
100+ lives saved
25+ graduates in leadership positions
2 to 4 improvement in CMS star rating

*Via IHQSE-led projects aimed at reducing adverse events
**IHQSE supported improvement at the University of Colorado Hospital


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For nearly a decade our dedicated faculty have built an integrated set of programs aimed at developing programmatic leaders in quality, creating high-quality, safe and efficient clinical care processes and, ultimately, driving profound organization-level improvements.  Here are just a few of our recent successes. 

For more please see our
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IHQSE Leader Publishes Formative Look at Challenges to Women in Healthcare Leadership

Feb 2, 2021
Dr. Emily Gottenborg, IHQSE faculty member and Director of the Introductory Training Program, was the lead author on a seminal paper understanding the experiences of women in leadership roles in hospital medicine. Her team highlighted four limiting challenges including lack of leadership training, bullying, a need to sacrifice to achieve balance and the need for personal and professional validation. Key interventions to address these issues were also shared.
Pediatric Transplantation journal

Kidney Transplant Team Adapts Pediatric-to-Adult Transition Program to Virtual Format

Jan 9, 2021
Recognizing the challenges of in-person sessions due to COVID-19, Certificate Training Program graduates Drs. Mary Chandran and Margaret Bock and Clinical Program Manager Megan Bisek published their experience adapting their pediatric kidney transplant transition-to-adult-care program to a virtual platform. The team attributed much of their progress to the knowledge and skills gained in the CTP course.
American Journal of Medical Quality

IHQSE Faculty Publish Successes of Early-career Quality and Leadership Training Program

Oct 8, 2020
IHQSE faculty published the six-year follow up of the success of University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Health Innovations Scholars Program. The program has shown a lasting impact on students' ongoing participation and leadership of quality and innovation work.
Clinical Infectious Diseases journal

Sustaining Change: 5 Years Later Antibiotic Stewardship Project Reveals 26% Reduction in Use

Oct 4, 2019
Drs. Christine MacBrayne, Jason Child and Sarah Parker shared the 5-year follow up of the ‘handshake stewardship’ program developed in the Certificate Training Program. The program has resulted in a sustained 26% reduction in antimicrobial use and saved millions of dollars all without changes in balancing measures such as length of stay, mortality or readmissions.

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