Langston Center for Innovation in Quality and Safety

Promoting person-centered, population-focused and cost-effective initiatives designed to improve health care

Housed in the VCU School of Nursing and made possible with support from VCU Health, the Langston Center for Innovation in Quality and Safety is a collaborative forum for clinicians, educators, researchers, students and entrepreneurs to advance innovative approaches to complex health care problems with solutions that ensure a quality and safe consumer experience.

The center was founded with a $1.25 million gift from the VCU Health System and named in honor of honor Nancy Langston, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, ANEF, former dean of the VCU School of Nursing from 1991-2013. Through an affiliate scholars program, a student fellows program and events (including an annual speakers series), the center leads a unique array of opportunities to develop leadership, quality and safety science, decision and implementation science, and innovation.

  • Mission: To be a premier resource network that advances innovative approaches to complex health care problems with solutions that ensure a quality and safe consumer experience.
  • Vision: To empower interprofessional networks of clinicians, educators, researchers, students and entrepreneurs to transform health care through collaboration and science that impacts lives.

Functions

  • Create models that bridge health care quality and safety, technology-driven innovation, and social and moral imperatives to optimize the human experience in health care
  • Generate learning experiences around innovation, quality and safety, embracing learners from professional schools, local and regional health systems, innovators/entrepreneurs, the at-large community, and policy influencers
  • Support the academic, research and practice missions of the VCU School of Nursing
  • Generate funding to sustain and grow the center’s work in partnership with the development office and other resource providers

Signature Programs

The Langston Center is home to a vibrant interdisciplinary community of student fellows, faculty, clinicians, affiliate scholars, researchers and entrepreneurs that convene in various formats to learn together, exchange ideas and innovate solutions that address complex health care problems.