Duke Quality Network

Helping to build and sustain cultures of safety, clinical quality, accountability, and high performance through tailored, practical solutions for community hospitals.

By partnering with the Duke Quality Network, your hospital is connected to Duke Health’s world-renowned safety, high reliability, and quality improvement expertise, using a proven model built upon the pillars of leadership, performance improvement, and a culture of safety.

Our Approach

The Duke Quality Network approach advances patient safety and clinical quality by:

• Enhancing the local hospital board’s engagement in and accountability for quality and patient safety initiatives
• Guiding and supporting hospital leadership with a focus on enhancing skills that drive reliability and embed continuous performance improvement within the fabric of the organization
• Teaching high reliability and error prevention strategies to prevent harm
• Supporting operational leaders in building capability to lead and mentor their team members through a combination of workshops and one-on-one coaching
• Engaging physicians in quality and patient safety initiatives and facilitating the development of physician leaders
• Promoting evidence-based interventions

Supporting achievement of value-based purchasing goals and favorable performance in publicly reported, reputational programs, such as Leapfrog and CMS Star Ratings