The agenda for each meeting will be prepared by the incoming or incumbent chairperson in consultation with all members and will be sent in writing to all members one week in advance of the meeting. The executive secretary will keep minutes and publish them throughout the organization after approval by all members. Minutes should be published as soon as possible after the meet- ing, after five working days at the most. We will establish a repository of records for our minutes, the records of quality improvement teams, and other quality work. Most important, both within our meetings and in our daily work, we will become quality models, living out the princi- ples we are asking everyone in the organization to practice.
Quality is our first priority.
All members will be expected to attend the meetings and to make all other priorities secondary except in case of an emergency. Our meetings will not be interrupted. Phone messages and drop-in visitors will have to wait. We will be one-hatted that is, we will not appear at meeting to represent our individual constituencies but to work together as a quality improvement team responsible for the whole organization. In other words, turf defense has no place in our meetings.