Quality Quarterly

The online Patient Safety Evaluation System (PSES) Summit, which will be held over two half-days, is set for May 9-10.  

HQI, in cooperation with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation and the California Hospital Association (CHA), creates and distributes quarterly dashboards of publicly available quality data for each CHA acute care member hospital. These model dashboards currently provide information on eight measures, with over 90 total measures on the data tab.   

Use of HQI’s updated Hospital Quality Improvement Platform (HQIP) — a quality analytics system that consolidates disparate data sources into a single, statewide platform — continues to increase as more hospitals complete their contract reviews.  

The second year of  HQI Cares: Implementing BETA HEART® — a multi-year program to advance patient safety in partnership with BETA Healthcare Group and Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) — is off to a good start with 32 hospitals participating. 

A well-done root cause analysis (RCA) can save lives, especially when it is shared at a CHPSO Safe Table so that many hospitals can benefit. At a Safe Table in February, a CHPSO member shared a situation involving the death of a patient who was admitted for chest pain, abdominal pain, and alcohol withdrawal.  

The use of HQI’s updated Hospital Quality Improvement Platform (HQIP) — a quality analytics system that consolidates disparate data sources into a single, statewide platform — continues to increase as more hospitals complete their contract reviews.   

HQI, in cooperation with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation and the California Hospital Association (CHA), creates and distributes quarterly dashboards of publicly available quality data for each CHA acute care member hospital. These model dashboards currently provide information on eight measures and over 80 total measures on the data tab.   

Dreams of a beautiful nursery, the trials and tribulations of being a new mother, and the bond with a new child — for most new U.S. moms, the excitement of parenthood is anything but a pipe dream.  

HQI/CHPSO, as part of their commitment to advancing safe, quality care, are launching a campaign to identify and recruit experts/front-line professionals who can speak on a variety of topics.