💡 Leadership’s role is crucial to ensuring success. Especially throughout the multifaceted journey toward achieving improvement in a shared clinical outcome. The Ohio Hospital Association embarked on a board-directed goal of: ✅ REDUCING SEPSIS MORTALITY to decrease loss of lives, limbs and individual functionality within the communities they served. OHA designed and launched the statewide initiative and appealed to member hospital leaders to participate. Each hospital committed to engage in at least one leadership tactic and one operational tactic to promote and support targeted sepsis mortality reduction efforts. Operational tactics included resource allocation, incorporation of the initiative into performance evaluations and action plan development. Hospital leaders were unified in their articulation of intended sepsis mortality reduction efforts, and, in doing so, demonstrated their own passion for the initiative. Both rapid cycle and long-term improvements were noted throughout the statewide initiative. Hospital, health system and state hospital association leaders routinely acknowledged progress by celebrating achievements. Leadership support has been a significant part of the initiative’s success. When leaders could readily cite outcomes such as the estimated number of lives saved, a shared commitment to the sepsis mortality reduction efforts resulted. Read the Healthcare Executive article by Kelsey Brown, RN and James Guliano, RN, FACHE, NEA-BC, here: https://healthcareexecutive.org/archives/march-april-2025/achieving-sustaining-clinical-improvement (fb)

🎧 Join us on the newest Healthcare Executive podcast as we explore the career of James Skogsbergh, FACHE, recipient of ACHE's 2025 Gold Medal Award. Discover how a commitment to the healthcare field, continuous learning and patience play vital roles in professional growth. Listen to the full episode here: https://healthcareexecutive.org/podcast (fb)