Michael Shabot, MD, FACS, FCCM, FACMI
Dr. Shabot is a Founding Partner of Relia Healthcare Advisors, which provides services in the areas of high-reliability safety and quality, executive leadership development, organizational culture assessment, medical staff governance, and implementation of the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Framework. Dr. Shabot formerly served as Executive Vice President and System Chief Clinical Officer of the Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, Texas, which includes 17 hospitals, 20 ambulatory surgical centers, and 300 other ambulatory sites. Memorial Hermann has private, employed, and academic medical groups totaling 6,500 physicians and an Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Under Dr. Shabot’s leadership, Memorial Hermann embarked on a journey to high-reliability safety. In 2013 Memorial Hermann received the John M. Eisenberg Award for Patient Safety and Quality, presented by the Joint Commission and National Quality Forum. In 2009 Memorial Hermann received both the National Quality Healthcare Award from the National Quality Forum and the National Patient Safety Leadership Award from the VHA Foundation and National Business Group on Health. In 2016 Memorial Hermann’s Sugar Land Hospital received the Baldrige
National Quality Award, and in 2017 and 2018 respectively, the Memorial Hermann’s Katy Hospital and Memorial City Medical Center received the Texas Award for Performance Excellence (TAPE), based on the Baldrige Award criteria. In 2019 Memorial Hermann received the International Hospital Federation’s Dr. Kwang Tae Kim Grand Award, presented to Dr. Shabot at the IHF Congress in Muskat, Oman.
Dr. Shabot also served as chairman of Memorial Hermann’s ACO Board and in 2013, 2014, and 2015, Memorial Hermann’s ACO generated the highest annual savings the CMS Medicare Shared Savings Program had ever recorded, totaling $200 million.
Dr. Shabot serves as an Adjunct Professor at the UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics and at the University of Alabama School of Health Professions. He also serves on the Board Quality Committee of the Mercy System, St. Louis, Missouri. Prior to joining Memorial Hermann, Dr. Shabot served as Chief of Staff, Associate Director of Surgery, Director of Surgical Intensive Care, and Medical Director of Information Services at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. He is co-author of the book Integrating Quality and Strategy in Health Care Organizations, published in August 2012, and serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals.
Dr. Shabot received his medical degree from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He is board certified in general surgery and surgery critical care. Dr. Shabot is married to Linda Ann Shabot and they have three children in Texas and California.
Publications:
ACHE, 2022
World Patient Safety Day: Learning from Airlines by Michael Shabot, MD, FACS, FCCM.
Journal of Healthcare Management, 2019
Zeroing In on High Reliability in Healthcare by Michael Shabot, MD, FACS, FCCM.
AACN Advanced Critical Care, 2019
Optimizing Fail-Safe Use of Complex Medical Devices by Hercules P, Shabot MM, Ryan T, and Ratcliff S.
Healthcare Executive, 2018
Sustaining A Safety Culture by Buell JM.
ACHE, 2018
High-Reliability Patient Safety Podcast with Shabot MM, Easedown J, and Uejima B.
Optimal Resources for Surgical Quality and Safety, 2017
“Safety and Reliability” in Optimal Resources for Surgical Quality and Safety (Hoyt D, Ko C, Meredith W, Cherry R) by Shabot MM and Clarke JC.
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 2016
Using the Targeted Solutions Tool to Improve Hand Hygiene Compliance by Shabot MM, Chassin MR, France AC, Inurria J, Kendrick J, and Schmaltz SR.
BMJ Quality & Safety, 2015
New Tools for High Reliability Healthcare (Editorial for “Role of Cognition in Generating and Mitigating Clinical Errors”) by M. Michael Shabot, MD, FACS, FCCM.
Healthcare Executive, 2015
Accelerating the Adoption of a Safety Culture by Birk S.
American Journal of Infection Control, 2014
Using Standardized Evidence-Based Instrument Care as part of a Comprehensive Program to Achieve Zero Surgical Site Infections by Dekay K, Morrison C, Kennedy V, France AC, Espinoza C, Butler J, Inurria J and Shabot MM.
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 2013
Memorial Hermann: High Reliability from Board to Bedside by Shabot MM, Monroe D, Inurria J, Garbade D, France AC.
Health & Hospital Networks, 2013
Engineering a Fail-Safe Health System by Sloan T.
Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2012
Integrating Quality and Strategy in Health Care Organizations by Sadegh S, Barzi A, Mikhail O, and Shabot MM
Group Practice Journal, 2011
Our Journey to Zero Patient Harm by Shabot MM and Warneke M.
Modern Healthcare, 2011
A New Standard-Aim for Safety of Planes, Nuclear Plants by Wolterman D and Shabot MM.
Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 2005
Automated Data Acquisition and Scoring for JCAHO ICU Core Measures by M. Michael Shabot, MD, FACS, FCCM.
Critical Care Clinic, 2005
The Electronic Medical Record, Safety, and Critical Care by Bria WF and Shabot MM.
Year Book of Surgery 2004
Impact of Wireless Clinical Alerts of Outcomes of Critically Ill Surgical Patients by Major K, Shabot MM, and Cunneen S.
The American Surgeon, 2002
Wireless Clinical Alerts and Patient Outcomes in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit by Major K, Shabot MM, and Cunneen S.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2001
Reducing the Frequency of Errors in Medicine Using Information Technology, by Bates DW, Cohen M, Leape LL, Overhage JM, Shabot MM, and Sheridan T.
HIMSS Journal, 1996
Achieving Measurable CQI Results by M. Michael Shabot, MD, FACS, FCCM.