Quality & Patient Safety

Overview

Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

February 18, 2011

The Hospital Council is engaging in education and peer-to-peer learning opportunities to help all hospitals to implement changes and to do so with greater staff acceptance. The changes taking place (healthcare reform) in the hospital field require significant and rapid change and redesign of the way work is coordinated. Coordination of care over time and across sites holds promise to improve safety and quality outcomes.

Post

CHPSO Annual Meeting
Getting to Zero: Innovate, Collaborate, Accelerate

April 8, 2013 - April 9, 2013

April 8-9, 2013

Hyatt Regency Sacramento

This statewide meeting provides innovative strategies and practical tools to eliminate preventable harm and improve patient safety.Includes groundbreaking patient safety work, culture change, technology, medication and surgical safety, human reliability, the legal and regulatory horizon, and more.

Who should attend?

Announcement

CHA and Regional Associations Launch Hospital Quality Institute

February 12, 2013

CHA and the Regional Associations have created a new statewide organization that will strengthen, support and align patient safety and quality improvement activities in hospitals throughout California.

The Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) will incorporate all of the Associations’ existing patient safety and quality improvement activities — including the California Hospital Patient Safety Organization, Patient Safety First, the California Hospital Engagement Network (known as CALHEN) and other local and regional collaboratives — into one streamlined organization.HQI will be responsib