Earlier this week, more than 200 hospital leaders and patient safety experts gathered for the 2025 HQI and Hospital Council Annual Conference, where they shared insights and explored the policy changes, technology advances, and workforce stresses that make patient safety both challenging and rewarding.
In just a few short months, hospitals’ first health equity reports, required under Assembly Bill 1204 (2021), will be due to the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI). These reports are no easy feat — they encompass dozens of measures, thousands of data fields, and require details about equity planning and performance.
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At HQI, our mission is to support California hospitals in advancing patient safety and quality improvement. We are here to help you meet the evolving challenges of care delivery — and that includes staying ahead of new state and federal requirements.
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We here at HQI are excited about the year ahead and continuing the collaborative work of enhancing patient safety and fostering a culture of excellence within hospitals. Our role is to support our members’ efforts toward providing the safest and highest quality care possible through education and the sharing of information and resources.
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HQI is dedicated to advancing quality, safety, and reliability in health care, ensuring that hospitals can deliver the highest standard of care to every patient. Through our innovative programs and evidence-based strategies, HQI helps hospitals reduce harm, improve patient outcomes, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
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HQI is committed to supporting hospitals in their efforts toward delivering the safest and highest quality care possible. The people you care for depend on you, and you depend on us. But it’s important to remember that HQI depends on you. The data we receive from our members is the foundation for what we do. The more timely and complete the data that’s submitted, the more comprehensive, up-to-date, and actionable our analyses will be.
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Patient safety is the focus of what we all do. It involves a never-ending process of learning, understanding, and improving. At HQI, our goal is to support the dedicated people who are on the front lines of patient safety with valuable information to help them do their jobs better and open the door to new ideas in the world of health care.
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In this final month of the year, and as we look toward 2024, we at HQI have been taking some time to reflect on the work we’ve been able to accomplish alongside hospital leaders throughout California and beyond.
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Hoping you’ve made plans to attend next month’s HQI Annual Conference, but if you haven’t yet, it’s not too late to register. This year, we’re gathering in Lake Tahoe on Oct. 15-16 for the chance to connect and reconnect with peers and experts, and to tap into patient safety excellence, while zeroing in on zero-harm care.
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Getting physically and verbally abused has become far too commonplace for health care workers. And while these circumstances against health care workers are nothing new, they have steadily increased over the past decade and were further exacerbated by the pandemic.
