Description of the HLQAT Survey

The Hospital Leadership and Quality Assessment Tool© (HLQAT) is designed to assess the perceptions of hospital board members, executives, and managers about important areas of leadership engagement in clinical quality improvement activities within their organization. The survey was developed by the University of Iowa Department of Health Management and Policy, Health Services Advisory Group, Premier/Care Science and the Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality, with input from Westat. Earlier versions of the survey were pretested with participants representing various roles from different levels of hospital leadership. The current HLQAT survey is the result of rigorous analysis of results from previous testing and subsequent improvements to the tool. 

Titles/Roles of Hospital Staff Who Should Complete the HLQAT

This gap assessment tool is designed to provide your hospital with information as to how your leadership staff perceive your organization’s level of commitment and engagement in activities supporting quality improvement. In addition, it can point to areas where there are differences in perception between roles and titles desgnated below. Alignment of goals and priorities throughout an organization is clearly demonstrated to be associated with high performing organizations. In order for your hospital to receive the best and most valuable data around these issues, it is imperative that you have ALL members of each category of respondent complete their portion of the survey.

Please select the button next to the title or description that most closely matches your position in the hospital. You may choose only one. (You will either take the Senior Leadership Survey OR the Clinical Management Survey. It is required that you make a selection from the list below.)

Senior Leadership Survey - To be completed by all board members and all senior leaders in one of the categories below:

1. Hospital Board of Directors/Trustees/Governing Board

   Board members of the hospital (Board members at the health/hospital system level should only complete the survey if an individual hospital does not have its own board.)

2. Executive

   The CEO (Chief Executive Officer), President, or highest ranking executive administrator in the hospital

3. Senior Administration/Management—Specific Individuals

   	CMO (Chief Medical Officer)/VP of Medical Services/ or top physician executive
   	CNO (Chief Nursing Officer)/VP of Nursing/or top nursing executive
   	COO (Chief Operating Officer)
   	CFO (Chief Financial Officer)
   	Chief of Medical Staff or similar role
   	Vice Presidents/Assistant Vice Presidents
   	Other Administrative or Executive level leaders or Senior Executive Team members ("C-Suite" members)
   	Quality Improvement/Patient Safety Personnel (Senior level or management level only)

Clinical Management Survey - To be completed by all managers of clinical areas, i.e. Nursing, Pharmacy, etc.

1. Physician Leaders:

   	Who oversee clinical departments
   	Are in other formal leadership roles in the hospital

2. Directors/Managers of clinical areas (non-physicians):

   	Nursing units
   	Lab
   	Emergency Dept.
   	Radiology
   	Other