Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety Peer Network Series

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 Grounded and Introduction section as well as lessons on five focus areas. Completing the Getting Grounded 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. Focus Areas 2-5 will be added to this page in the coming months.

• Getting Grounded: Foundational Health Equity Learning
  • Getting Grounded and Building a Safe Container for Transformative Conversations 0.5 Credit CME
  • 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: 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
• Focus Area 1: 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
• Focus Area 2: Equipping Staff With the Knowledge, Skills, and Tools to Create Safe Spaces
  • High Reliability Module: Equipping Staff With Tools for Advancing Equity 0.25 Credit CME
  • Health Equity Narrative, Language, and Concepts 0.75 Credit CME
  • Embracing an Embodied Approach to Learning 0.25 Credit CME
  • Equity Case Review: An Example from Brigham & Women’s Hospital 0.75 Credit CME
  • Equity Case Review: Contributing Factors, Actions, and Case Resolution – Examples from Brigham and Women’s Hospital 0.25 Credit CME