Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship

Are your investments in Patient Safety yielding lasting results? AHA can help you stimulate performance improvements in your hospital, cultivate new safety champions and build capacity within your teams.

Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship is a yearlong intensive learning experience that develops leadership competencies and promotes breakthroughs in safety practices through a dynamic, highly participatory, and structured learning community.  The Fellowship provides health care professionals across the country an opportunity to integrate innovative strategies into their day-to-day work and improve efforts to create a culture of safety in their organizations.

The Fellowship offers a transformative learning opportunity for health care leaders and teams. The program combines:

• Learning retreats - three weeklong gatherings during the course of the program
• Diverse, nationally recognized faculty
• Peer support and coaching from leading innovators
• Self-study curriculum
• Action learning projects

The Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship encompasses a wide variety of benefits to both the Fellow and to their organization.

Fellow Benefits:

• Access to nationally recognized faculty and thought leaders
• Exploration of new mental models
• Collaborative peer learning and support from active learning community
• Personal leadership skill-building
• Teamwork and communications training
• Resources to inform your organization’s strategy agenda and execution

Organizational Benefits:

• Operational and clinical improvements driven by Fellows’ action initiatives
• Greater awareness of safety cultures and tools targeted toward physicians, staff, board, and senior leaders
• Project assessment and coaching by nationally recognized faculty
• Staff capable of facilitating, teaching, and sustaining organizational change processes
• Savings in time and money due to faster project implementation, more effective results, and less reliance on external consultants

Since 2002, more than 250 Fellows from 165 organizations have participated. The program is best suited for seasoned practitioners and clinicians who are looking to enhance their skills in leading safety efforts within their organizations.

In 2008, AHA’s Quality Center became a major sponsor of program activities and joins a collaborative network of partner organizations including the:

Greek Clinic Center (AHA)
National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF)
Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET)
Health Forum
American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM)
American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE)
Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)

To speak with staff, apply, or reserve your space contact Shawn Foster at (312) 422-2933.    

Proceed to fellowship virtual community (must have a pass coed and user id to proceed).