Alliance Aims to Improve Hospital Leadership, Patient Care in Ethiopia

April 23, 2012

The Ethiopian Hospital Alliance for Quality (EHAQ) was launched in early April by the African nation’s Ministry of Health and key partners, including Yale Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI).

GHLI has been working with the Ethiopian ministry to improve hospital-level management  for more than six years, but the concept for EHAQ was created in 2011 when delegates from Ethiopia attended the GHLI conference with the goal of developing a strategy to catalyze nationwide improvement in hospital performance. 

“EHAQ is designed to create a network of hospitals that are committed to helping one another improve services, with an initial focus on patient satisfaction,” said Elizabeth Bradley, faculty director of GHLI. 

While there have been many targeted and successful quality-oriented collaborations engaging networks of hospitals, this is the first country-wide alliance in Africa, notes Bradley.

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