Patient Safety & Quality

Awards

2026 Patient Safety and Quality Award application is now available! Deadline Friday, Sept. 19.

The Patient Safety and Quality Awards recognize health care organizations for their achievements in reducing the risk of medical errors and improving patient safety and medical outcomes.

Watch the recap of last year's Patient Safety and Quality Summit.

 

Patient Safety Awareness Week Logo Competition

Create a theme and logo for hospitals to use during Patient Safety Awareness Week March 8-14, 2026. To enter the 2026 Patient Safety Awareness Week Logo Contest, please email your design and completed attestation to Shondia Evans. The winning logo will be unveiled and the awards will be presented during the next GHA Patient Safety and Quality Summit in January 2026.

 

Congratulations to the 2025 Award Winners!

Community Health

Communities trust hospitals to provide quality care and education and use them as a resource for health, wellness, prevention and care. GHA partnered with Alliant Health Solutions to provide assistance to members’ communities for the purpose of improving local healthcare and collaboration. The partnership aims to support local community efforts to improve a local and mutually agreed upon goal such as chronic disease management, care transitions, patient safety, or behavioral health.

Hospital Quality Improvement

The Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program (FLEX) aims to improve access to preventive and emergency health care services for rural populations. The Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project (MBQIP) is an initiative within FLEX that is funded through the Health Resources and Services Administration's Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) and funded to support quality improvement (QI) work with small rural hospitals.

The Hospital Quality Improvement Contract (HQIC) – The Georgia Hospital Association served as a contractor to Alliant Health Solutions, who serves as a Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) within its Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractors.

The Small Rural Hospital Improvement Grant Program (SHIP) provides funding to more than 1,600 participating hospitals in 47 participating State Offices of Rural Health (SORH) to help small rural hospitals participate in various Affordable Care Act (ACA) delivery system reforms, such as value-based purchasing programs, accountable care organizations and payment bundling.

 

GHA Quality and Patient Safety Webinars