The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in partnership with the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), has released a resource guide on quality of care entitled Corporate Responsibility and Health Care Quality: A Resource for Health Care Boards of Directors.
As part of Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson’s quality-of-care initiative, this resource guide is intended to assist directors of healthcare organizations in carrying out their oversight responsibilities in the current challenging healthcare environment. It is the third in a series of documents on corporate responsibility cosponsored by OIG and the AHLA.
The guide is designed to help healthcare organization boards ask appropriate questions related to measurement tools as well as healthcare quality and reporting requirements. OIG and AHLA intend for this guide to support healthcare organization directors’ ongoing efforts to promote effective corporate compliance as it relates to healthcare quality.
