Applications Now Being Accepted for the 2010-2011 AHA-NPSF Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship

Want to Turn Your Passion for Patient Safety into Real Results?
Now in its ninth year, the AHA-NPSF Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship is a year-long transformative learning experience for up and coming clinical and administrative leaders dedicated to improving quality and patient safety. Through a dynamic, highly participatory learning community, fellows gain new knowledge, skills, tools, and leadership capacity to engage clinicians and senior leaders in creating cultures of safety and highly reliable care.

The Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship brings together remarkable individuals committed to understanding the challenges of patient safety and dedicated to transforming health care.

Benefits of the program include:
• Expanded knowledge in the science and practice of patient safety—delivered by national experts and leaders in the field
• Increased ability to implement and spread health care innovations-- leading to reduced cost and improved performance across the entire organization
• Creation of a major patient safety improvement project with the skills needed to pilot future mission-critical initiatives
• Increased capacity to impact others and generate and sustain improvements

The Fellowship is co-sponsored by the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) in partnership with the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET), Health Forum, the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM), the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE), and the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM).

Applications will be accepted through February 15, 2010.  To learn more about the curriculum and requirements, visit www.ahafellowships.org or call (312) 422-2933.