HLQAT Leadership Tool
Hospital Leadership and Quality Assessment Tool (HLQAT)
Indiana hospitals are being offered a free opportunity to evaluate leadership engagement in quality and safety improvement. A new Web-based survey, the Hospital Leadership and Quality Assessment Tool (HLQAT), helps hospitals to identify and improve leadership structures and processes that are associated with high-performance in clinical quality measures.

HLQAT, the result of public-private collaboration between CMS, the Commonwealth Fund, and other national organizations, is being offered to Indiana hospitals for free as a thank you for the valuable feedback provided during the tools development and pilot studies.

Participating hospitals will receive a hospital-level HLQAT report that provides valuable benchmarks. The instrument is designed as a gap-assessment that can be used as a launching pad for improvement. Hospitals should repeat the survey in 12-18 months. In order to participate, hospitals must have a team of at least 13 people complete the questionnaires. Teams must be comprised of board members, c-level executives, and clinical managers. Interested hospitals should contact Betsy Lee, director, Indiana Patient Safety Center, at blee@ihaconnect.org or 317/423-7795.