The Future of Healthcare Quality & Leadership

As healthcare organizations navigate mounting pressures around cost, workforce, and patient outcomes, quality and leadership are becoming inseparable disciplines. In this fireside chat, AAPL Interim CEO Dr. Claude Brunson and NAHQ CEO Stephanie Mercado explore how physician leaders and quality professionals can work together to drive meaningful improvement across health systems. Drawing on their respective vantage points leading two of healthcare's key professional organizations, Brunson and Mercado will discuss where quality and leadership intersect, the shared challenges facing both fields, and what it will take for healthcare organizations to build a culture where quality and leadership reinforce one another.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the evolving relationship between healthcare quality and physician leadership, and identify why the two disciplines are increasingly interdependent

2. Identify at least two strategies for fostering stronger collaboration between clinical leadership and quality improvement functions within their own organizations

3. Discuss emerging trends and challenges facing healthcare quality and leadership, and how physician leaders can prepare their organizations to respon