Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety Peer Network Series

The Peer Network for Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety is a program offered by the AMA Center for Health Equity in collaboration with the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and The Joint Commission (TJC). In this free CME series, Peer Network faculty and guest speakers present a wide range of topics with the goal of helping learners integrate equity into their quality and safety infrastructures to ultimately help improve health outcomes for historically marginalized populations.

In July 2019, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) launched a pivotal collaboration to develop a new system-wide model for reducing health inequities throughout clinical operations, quality and safety infrastructure. This led to the design, testing and implementation of a new quality, safety and equity framework that serves as the foundation for the AMA Peer Network for Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety. The framework merges patient-centered approaches to quality and safety of care with robust structural analyses of racism and equity to support an overall mission of delivering equitable high-quality care to every single patient.

The Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety Peer Network Series is a set of free, online CME activities designed for medical professionals, health system executives, Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) leaders, patient leads, and anyone involved in quality improvement and patient safety.

This free CME series provides a Getting Started and Introduction section as well as lessons on five focus areas. Completing the Getting Started section will ground learners in the history of how inequities arose and persist in medicine and will define common terms relating to racial justice and health equity.

Foundational Learning
- Historical Foundations of Racism in Medicine: An Introduction 0.5 Credit CME
- Historical Foundations of Racism in Medicine: Pain and Racism in Medicine and Health Care 0.25 Credit CME
- Historical Foundations of Racism in Medicine: Medical Mistrust and Medical Distrust 0.25 Credit CME
- Basics of Health Equity 0.5 Credit CME
Introduction to the Five Focus Areas for Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety
- Overview of Advancing Equity Through Quality and Safety 0.25 Credit CME
- Advancing Equity Through Quality and Safety: Five Focus Areas 0.25 Credit CME
- Panel Discussion: Implementing the Five Focus Areas for Advancing Equity Through Quality and Safety 0.75 Credit CME
- Team Structure for Embedding Equity Into Q&S 0.25 Credit CME
Integrate Equity into Harm Event Reporting
- Equity Informed High-Reliability Modules: Integrating Equity Into Harm Event Reporting 0.25 Credit CME
- Embedding Equity Into Quality, Safety, and Risk Analyses 0.25 Credit CME
- Embedding Equity Into Safety Reporting System 0.25 Credit CME
- Developing an Equity Tracker 0.25 Credit CME
- Tactics and Techniques for Incorporating Equity Into Case Reviews 0.25 Credit CME
- Embedding Equity Prompts Into Reporting Solutions: Examples of Implementation 0.75 Credit CME
- Building Organizational Structures and Processes for Sustainability in Quality, Safety, and Equity 0.5 Credit CME