Chief Quality Officers: Preparing the Healthcare Workforce to Lead

The chief quality officer (CQO) serves a key role to ensure that providers deliver the highest-quality care while lowering costs, reducing ineffective care, waste, and harm to patients. Chief quality officers come from a variety of backgrounds but all of them have specialized knowledge and skills in quality and safety competencies that make them an indispensable asset in the C-suite. This session will focus on how chief quality officers position and prepare for their workforce to lead. Hear from a panel of CQOs as they outline strategies and steps that help their teams advance quality and safety in their organizations.