One of ECOHs primary goals is to advance healthcare quality, by promoting the use of the quality principles and practices in healthcare organizations. ECOH is undertaking several Quality Initiatives in working toward the achievement of this goal.

These initiatives include providing our members with data from several regional and national organizations, as well as procuring qualitative data from members, regarding the quality of care they receive from providers.


What is a Quality Initiative?

In recent months, national organizations like the American Hospital Association (AHA), the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) have publicly agreed to take a leadership role on one of the most important issues facing our field: making information public about the quality of hospital care.

The above organizations believe that hospitals should be the leaders in voluntarily sharing quality information with the public. This effort will not only increase public trust and confidence in hospitals and healthcare providers, but will also help patients and families become more active partners in healthcare decision-making. Quality Initiatives provide some of the tools they need to make informed decision about their health and the health of loved ones.


ECOH Believes:

• Quality among healthcare providers varies greatly.
• The Quality of providers can be measured.
• Our members can understand and use quality measures to make decisions about their healthcare.
• By measuring provider quality, we will drive quality improvement.

ECOH Quality Initiatives

• Leapfrog Group
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• ECOH - Patient Satisfaction Benchmarking