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Take healthcare quality and patient care services to a higher level of excellence.
Executive Certificate for Patient Safety & Quality
Learn how to implement and evaluate healthcare quality and safety.
Executive Certificate for Healthcare Safety & Leadership
Interested in being a leader in healthcare? Equip yourself with effective leadership strategies.
“As a graduate of this program, I am confident that I can contribute to making healthcare safer and of better quality for the patients we serve now and in the future.”
Mary Herold, RN, BSN, CNML and EMCQSL graduate, May 2019
Earn your degree online from internationally renowned Georgetown University
Learn directly from the leaders who shaped the patient safety and quality landscape
Gain new skills that you can incorporate immediately into your practice
Every person deserves to be served by a healthcare system that consistently delivers reliable performance and constantly improves, systematically and seamlessly, with each care experience and transition. The Executive Master’s and Certificate programs will unleash a systematic, evidence-based education that will achieve striking results in safety, quality, leadership and healthcare value.
After graduation, you will have the knowledge to design, implement, and lead a broad range of patient safety activities including the transformation of the current error-ridden culture of healthcare.
Executive Master's
32 credits in 16 months
Immerse yourself in advanced theory and concepts of healthcare quality, patient safety science, and organizational leadership
Executive Certificate in
Patient Safety & Quality
12 credits in 6 months
Practice fundamental concepts of systems-thinking, improvement science, and data collection, organization, & analyses.
Executive Certificate in Healthcare
Safety & Leadership
12 credits in 6 months
Equip yourself to be a leader in an ever-changing healthcare system.
"This program is innovative and bold; exactly what is needed in healthcare."
- Rosemary Gibson, Author of Wall of Silence and Georgetown Alumna