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Across the nation, healthcare leaders are hitting the hallways and walking the wards in an effort to improve patient safety. During executive walkrounds, also called leadership or patient safety walkrounds, hospital executives and senior managers visit units and talk to staff about patient safety issues. The goal is to build a culture of patient safety by showing that leadership makes it a priority and to resolve any patient safety problems quickly.