Drew Roth

Knock Out the Flu Video Encourages Everyone to Get a Flu Shot

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Our partners at the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority have produced a short video — Knock Out the Flu — that explains why everyone should get the flu shot every year, and why it’s more important now than ever to help protect you and your […]

HQI President’s Message

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“Quality is not an act; it is a habit.” – Aristotle 

As patient safety and quality improvement professionals, you understand those words better than most. The work you do isn’t defined by a sales metric or accomplishment of a task, but rather by incremental improvement — your journey from providing good patient care to great patient care. 

Lessons Learned – Sepsis and Covid-19

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.One of the most popular educational offerings available to CHPSO members are the regularly scheduled Safe Table forums. Offered about two dozen times per year, these meetings are focused on safety and quality improvement topics, each with a specific clinical focus. As a members-only patient safety activity, these confidential forums occur within each participant’s patient safety […]

New Name, Same Mission for CHPSO

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.CHPSO, a division of HQI, has changed its name to the Collaborative Healthcare Patient Safety Organization. The change, which took effect Jan. 29, was made in order to better reflect the organization’s membership. The organization remains dedicated to eliminating preventable harm and improving the quality of health care delivery in hospitals. 

Medication Reconciliation Optimization: Cleaning Up the wRECk

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Sarah A. Bajorek, PharmD, BCACP Mithu Molla, MD, MBA UC Davis Health   The University of California Davis Medical Center is a tertiary, 627-bed urban academic medical center that provides care to the Sacramento and northern California region. With a growing awareness of sentinel safety […]

Members Encouraged to Join Legal Counsel Discussion Group Calls

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date. As one of the many complementary services offered to members, CHPSO hosts a regularly scheduled Legal Counsel Discussion Group Call designed to support an ongoing exploration of the legal privileges and challenges of the Patient Safety & Quality Improvement Act of 2005 […]

Lessons Learned: Retained Surgical Items

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.About twice a month, CHPSO hosts a Safe Table forum focused on a specific clinical topic. These members-only forums are designed to empower providers to engage in robust, meaningful patient safety and quality improvement activities.  The group explores situations in which there […]

Even Heroes Need Help

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For the women and men on the front lines of healing those afflicted with coronavirus, the past several weeks have tested not only their clinical skills, but also their physical limits and their emotional fortitude. 

And with many more weeks, possibly months, before they can exhale again, they need all the help they can get — now. 

Improving Patient Safety with Smart Pumps

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Health care providers must provide precision care, perform highly complex procedures and treatments, and cope with increasingly stressful care environments. To support their work, a variety of innovations have been devised to increase patient safety by decreasing preventable harm related to human […]

New HQI Data Analytics Platform Offers Consolidated Data, Benchmarking Tools

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.At October’s annual conference, HQI launched the Hospital Quality Improvement Platform — a system that consolidates disparate data sources into a single, statewide platform. Its reports and benchmarking tools fuel improvement with intelligence, providing hospital leaders with invaluable quality performance analytics. To date, […]