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IMPROVING OUTCOMES

42% Reduction in Readmission Rate in Medical Patients

CREATING THE SCIENCE

IHQSE Named the 2015 Society of Hospital Medicine Top Innovation

IMPROVING OUTCOMES

48% Reduction in 1-year Mortality in Hip Fracture Patients

IMPROVING OUTCOMES

$2 Million Annual Reduction in Antibiotic Costs

CREATING THE SCIENCE

Handshake Stewardship Program becomes National Standard for Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs

The Joint Commission

IMPROVING OUTCOMES

$3 Million Annual Savings with Earlier Palliative Care Intervention

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.


Learn more about our programs


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
25+ graduates in leadership positions
2 to 4 improvement in CMS star rating

*IHQSE supported improvement at the University of Colorado Hospital


IHQSE Newsroom


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. 

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Dedicated Residency Training Yields Quality, Safety and Hospital Leaders

Jun 6, 2022
IHQSE faculty members, Drs. Emily Gottenborg, Jeff Glasheen, and Tyler Anstett, along with IHQSE alumna Dr. Julia Limes, published the first program evaluation of a residency training program focused on Hospital Medicine. The paper describes the University of Colorado’s experience of training over a hundred hospitalist residents over 15 years. Notably, the program found that graduates were highly likely to choose careers in hospital medicine with over 80% holding quality, safety and operational leadership roles.
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Valuing Hospital-Providers Beyond Clinical Productivity

Jun 2, 2022
Dr. Moksha Patel, IHQSE Lead Physician Informaticist, authored a perspective piece, looking at ways to reimagine the way we measure hospital-provider productivity. This paper focuses on the limitations of traditional measures of hospital-provider value, such as clinical productivity and emphasizes the patient, employee, and institutional outcomes such as quality, safety and experience.
American Journal of Medical Quality

IHQSE Shows Promise as Only Training Program Associated with Organization-Level Improvements and Publicly Reported Measures

Mar 7, 2022
Despite decades of effort to drive quality improvement, many health care organizations still struggle to optimize their performance on quality metrics. The advent of publicly reported quality rankings and ratings allows for greater visibility of overall organizational performance but has not provided a roadmap for sustained improvement in these assessments. In 2012, the Institute for Health care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency was launched, which is an integrated set of quality and safety training programs, with a focus on leadership development and support of performance improvement through data analytics and intensive coaching. After 10 years, the IHQSE has trained nearly 2000 individuals and has been associated with significant improvement in organization-level quality rankings and ratings, offering a framework for organizations seeking systematic, long-term improvement.
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Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary

Mar 1, 2022
The Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency was launched in 2012 with the aim of developing leaders and transforming processes to create lasting organization-level change and fundamentally improve patient care. In March 2022, the IHQSE celebrates 10 years of work and nearly 2000 individuals trained.

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