Webinar

Patient Safety Evaluation System — 2024 Virtual Summit

Discover how to leverage your Patient Safety Evaluation System (PSES) to transform health care into a learning structure. This innovative summit will teach you how to break barriers and solve what keeps us up at night. It will provide information to help you communicate better (internally and with patients) and strengthen patient care delivery. Presenters will address how to improve patient care design, and discuss innovative programs that reduce costs, accelerate efficiency, and enhance reliability.  

Falling Short: Why Fall Prevention Programs Are Not Enough

Discover the key to preventing hospital falls in our upcoming webinar, where we unveil the singularly proven intervention that effectively mitigates fall risks. Join us as we delve into current strategies and drawing from the latest research offer practical insights to address this critical patient safety concern. Learn how this evidence-based intervention can transform fall […]

The Identification and Mitigation of False-positive CLABSIs

Central line associated blood stream infections are associated with increased patient morbidity, mortality, and health care costs. In 2020, the target was for CLABSI rates to improve by 50% compared to the 2015 baseline. However, during COVID-19, the national SIR for CLABSI increased an average of 24% nationally and remains 22% above pre-pandemic levels.  

More than Sneaker Power: Safe and Effective Transport of Blood Components by Pneumatic Tube Delivery Systems

New and increasingly more sophisticated technologies impacting the blood bank/transfusion services have been widely deployed, enhancing the blood bank operations in a safe and effective manner. When considering the introduction of new instrumentation or new methodologies, it is incumbent on the manager or other laboratory representative responsible for operations to fully assess the needs of […]

Elder Abuse and Neglect: Inpatient Considerations

This webinar will describe the signs and symptoms of elder and dependent abuse and neglect in patients presenting to the emergency room and hospital.  The presenter will discuss this importance of understanding patients’ pre-hospital function, caregiving and environment in order to assess for the possibility of abuse. Trauma Informed Motivation Interviewing (TIMI), a technique for […]

Strategies for Successful CLABSI Prevention: Insights from Our Journey to Zero

Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, nestled in the Sierra Foothills of Northern California, faced significant challenges in preventing CLABSI during the SARS CoV-2 (COVID) pandemic. Rather than adhering strictly to conventional compliance practices involving insertion and maintenance bundles, they approached the issue by distinguishing between prevention and reduction strategies. Their commitment and innovative perspective bore fruit, […]

Historical Data Challenges with Event Report Data and Solutions Found in CHPSOData

This webinar will present solutions developed by CHPSO to resolve several historically frustrating challenges associated with handling patient safety report data. Solutions for data intake and quality auditing, automated classification of “other” events into meaningful categories, and analytic comparisons to peers with be presented as implemented in the CHPSOData platform. Please contact CHPSO at info@chpso.org if you […]