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Supporting Boards

As of June 30, 2011, CHSRF handed off delivery of the program to CPSI. (Go to CPSI’s page for the program.) However, CHSRF continues to promote effective governance practices through its other programming, including EXTRA and regional health system transformation projects.

Ted Freedman Award 2011

CHSRF and CPSI jointly won The Ted Friedman Award in 2011 for their submission on the Workshops for Effective Governance for Quality and Patient Safety imitative. The award recognizes ‘Innovation in Education’ programs that advocate and enable education in health, health services or health management at a healthcare organization. More...

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Report: Effective Governance for Quality and Patient Safety Program: An Evaluative Assessment

This report assesses the effectiveness of the Effective Governance Program teaching curriculum in supporting health services board members and their executive leaders in advancing quality and patient safety improvements within their organizations. The results provide insight into the program's process and impact and may be useful for guiding future board governance training initiatives.
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Report: Effective Governance for Quality and Safety in Canadian Healthcare Organizations

Commissioned by CHSRF in partnership with CPSI, this report by Ross Baker and colleagues explores the structures, processes and tools used by effective governing boards of healthcare organizations, and the strategies and tactics that can be employed by boards in their efforts to improve governance for quality and patient safety. The report also offers recommendations for board members and executives of healthcare organizations and for policy-makers.
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CHSRF and Citizens in Healthcare Governance

Citizens on boards play an important role in the healthcare system. They play a key role in shaping the organizations, while being accountable for their overall performance. As such, their decisions can affect the system at large.

Boards of healthcare organizations are legally responsible for the overall performance of their organizations. These boards have traditionally focused on financial performance, but CEOs and boards are increasingly being held responsible for performance on quality and patient safety. However, many boards do not have the skills and tools to fulfil this role. CHSRF, in partnership with the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI), identified a need for research about the role of governance in quality and safety. Ross Baker and colleagues were commissioned to examine the current state of governance in Canadian healthcare organizations with respect to quality and patient safety, and to identify promising initiatives in Canada and the U.S.

The resulting report, Governance for Quality and Patient Safety in Canadian Healthcare Organizations, offers specific recommendations to improve boards’ governance performance at the regional and local levels. It confirms a need for stronger skills and tools to build board capacity of healthcare organizations with respect to quality and safety. To address this, CHSRF and CPSI developed an education program and toolkit, piloted in spring 2010 and offered in locations across the country as of September 2010. Both initiatives were designed to help boards understand and implement effective governance practices and to expand the community of people committed to using evidence in support of excellence withing Canada's healthcare organizations.  

CHSRF material about healthcare governance