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: The Langston Center supports the transformation of health care through collaborative education, research and practice that advances innovative approaches to complex health care problems and drives excellence in health care quality and safety.
  • Vision: Those involved with the Langston Center (clinicians, educators, researchers, students, entrepreneurs) will drive transformative advancements in health care delivery and enhance health outcomes of the communities we serve.

Functions

  • Provide strategic leadership regarding innovation in quality and safety to optimize the human experience in health care
  • Enhance the education missions of the VCU School of Nursing and VCU Health by generating and sustaining learning experiences around quality, safety and innovation for interdisciplinary learners, community members, policy influencers and others at VCU, VCU Health and beyond
  • Enhance the research and practice missions of the VCU School of Nursing and VCU Health regarding quality, safety and innovation
  • Generate funding to sustain and grow the Langston Center's work

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.