Overview

The Hospital Leadership and Quality Assessment Tool (HLQAT) is the culmination of several years of work by a team of individuals from the Department of Health Management and Policy University of Iowa (UI), Premier/Care Science (Premier), the Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Care (OFMC), Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care (IFMC), and the Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG). The principal goal in developing HLQAT was to provide an evidence-based self-administered survey of organizational structures and processes related to quality and safety that could be employed to assess progress and facilitate development in these areas.