Medical errors are now the third leading cause of death in the United States (Makary & Daniel, 2016). The widely acknowledged prevalence of avoidable patient harm and adverse outcomes has led to routine use of the term healthcare quality, with professionals, patients, consumers, and regulatory agencies among the many parties regularly referring to it (Hughes, 2008). Ongoing quality efforts to identify and implement better, more effective patient care practices now exist in virtually every healthcare institution. Evidence suggests that the safety and quality of care in hospitals can be recognizably improved (Pronovost, Thompson, Holzmueller, Lubomski, & Morlock, 2005). Despite these efforts, many quality indicators of healthcare quality have actually worsened, and public trust of hospitals and healthcare professionals continues to erode (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ], 2009). Quality indicators include structure, process, and outcome measures that are reported annually in the National Healthcare Quality Reports, thus providing an overview of the quality of health care in the United States. The most recent National Healthcare Quality Report, published in 2015, reveals a number of measures that showed no change or worsening of quality (AHRQ, 2015a). Similar issues and initiatives also exist in other countries (World Health Organization [WHO], 2003).