Leading Quality

About Leading Quality

Welcome to Leading Quality, the show that dives into the real-world stories and strategies of healthcare quality improvement leaders at all levels, from Frontline Champions to C-Suite Executives. Each episode uncovers how these dedicated professionals tackle complex topics in real healthcare environments. Discussion range from QI fundamentals, to leadership, technology, AI, and beyond. If you’re passionate about elevating patient care and want practical insights that go beyond the buzzwords, this podcast is for you. Tune in for inspirational conversations, innovative frameworks, and the behind-the-scenes details you won’t hear anywhere else, and discover how you, too, can lead quality improvement from wherever you stand in healthcare.

Publisher

Jason Meadows, MD

Category

business · health & fitness · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Aug 2025

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

31 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   ICYMI: Change Happens at the Speed of Trust: Lessons from a Decade of Physician-Led Improvement

   This week, we're revisiting one of the earliest episodes of Leading Quality—and a conversation about what it really takes to build lasting improvement capability in healthcare. We'll be back with an all-new episode in our next release. How do you build a culture of quality improvement across an entire healthcare system? And what happens when you start with frontline clinicians rather than executive leadership? In this episode, I speak with Dr. Curt Smecher, a retired anesthesiologist and one ...

2. 

   24 Sept 2026

   How Do You Build a Safety Culture That Survives Leadership Turnover?

   Why This Episode Matters High reliability is often treated as a collection of visible practices: safety huddles, rounding, event review, reporting systems. But Nicholas Testa argues that the practices matter only if they create an organization that can reliably surface risk, learn, and respond. The harder leadership problem is durability: can those behaviors continue when the CMO changes, the CEO turns over, or the original champion leaves? This conversation examines the organizational ...

3. 

   10 Sept 2026

   Lessons From Year One: Leading a Healthcare Learning System

   Why This Episode Matters Healthcare organizations cannot learn simply because they have dashboards, safety reports, improvement methods, or formal escalation processes. Learning depends on whether people can surface what leaders do not know, challenge assumptions, admit uncertainty, and act on problems without making truth-telling personally dangerous. This second year-in-review episode examines the human conditions that make a learning system work: leadership humility, trust, psychological s...

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5.0 / 5

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5.0 / 5

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