Webinar intro paragraph to promote the webinar. Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center (SCVMC) showed an 83% reduction in surgical site infections as part of a methodical, structured approach utilizing subject matter experts both in and outside of procedural areas. SCVMC made maximum use of patient stories, multidisciplinary engagement, data analysis, Lean Six Sigma tools, Just Culture, and industry best practices. It included the implementation of ERAS, a multimodal perioperative care pathway designed to achieve early recovery for patients undergoing major surgery for both COLO and GYN surgery and continues to expand to other service lines.
In the last 10 years, there has been a ground swell of evidence-based practices related to cardiac arrest management, resulting in increased attention to coordinated in-hospital response and resuscitation practices. The COVID-19 pandemic pushed these response mechanisms to the limit, and made many hospital systems reconsider how they prepare for, measure and improve their response to patients with acute decompensation. In this context, regulatory bodies are now deliberately incorporating review of resuscitation practices into their hospital site reviews. This lecture will review these emerging site review criteria, discuss different models of code response and preparedness, and offer suggestions on how to best meet these new requirements and promote long term survivorship for in-hospital cardiac arrest.
In this webinar, we will demonstrate how the new CHPSO Data reporting system works, answer members’ questions, and discuss ideas for continuous improvement of our new platform.
CHPSO has partnered with NewVolt Solutions and SpeedTrack Inc. to launch this new event reporting platform as a replacement for NextPlane.
The new system improves in a few key areas
- Simplified upload and data mapping process, using artificial intelligence to decrease the manual input required
- Improved data standardization, with a focus on the most commonly used AHRQ data elements
- Advanced comparative analytics and text navigation
Similar to NextPlane, the new system will not require technical resources, will not require any software installation, and will not be any additional charge to members.
Hospital acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) are devastating to patients. These patients enter the hospital with one ailment and with a pressure injury their hospitalization increases, there is an increased risk for infection and decreased chance at health. Additionally, the costs of a HAPI are absorbed by the hospital. The hospital uses staffing resources, hospital space […]
A prerequisite for universally high quality, equitable care is understanding and addressing how societal/structural inequities affect quality and patient safety in clinical encounters. Yet the ways in which these inequities can permeate and undermine patient care are not always apparent to health care staff and providers.
In Part I of this series, The Impact of Bias on Quality and Patient Safety, participants learned about the contribution of staff/providers’ implicit biases to inequities in quality of care, along with specific evidence-based strategies for preventing biases.
This webinar will further equip participants with knowledge and strategies for preventing another set of potentially invisible yet significant barriers to quality and safety of care. Specifically, participants will learn about the nature and impact of social identity threat and racial trauma, and become equipped with evidence-based strategies for preventing them. Understanding and preventing the deleterious impact of these often overlooked but powerful manifestations of structural inequities is a necessary component of an effective, comprehensive approach to eliminating inequities in health care.
Patient Safety Awareness Week 2020
Despite decades of evidence and thousands of studies demonstrating racial and ethnic inequalities in health care quality and safety, there has been limited progress towards correcting this problem. The lack of progress is especially disturbing in light of the fact that clinicians, providers and health care organizations deeply and sincerely want to provide high quality and safe care to all their patients. This talk focuses on the overlooked factors that are at the root of our lack of progress. Many of our approaches fail to take into account the way we, as humans, actually think about and respond to each other and our world.
Fortunately, there is a large body of scientific evidence regarding the complex interplay of human motives and information processing – and the way they are influenced by social and organizational factors – that can be used to inform interventions and accelerate progress. This presentation will increase participant understanding of the evidence regarding factors that support vs. undermine the ability of health care professionals and organizations to provide unbiased and equally high-quality and safe care to all their patients.
Patient Safety Awareness Week 2022
Addressing racial inequity in healthcare requires focused attention and concerted action. A new initiative in Los Angeles County (now in its third year) is doing just that. Cherished Futures for Black Moms and Babies helps participating hospitals evaluate their data, collaborate with community partners, and implement institutional changes to improve care for Black women, birthing people, and families.
Patient Safety Awareness Week 2022
In this presentation we will discuss who transgender patients are, and review relevant epidemiologic information about this diverse patient population. We will then discuss the treatments and care plans that many patients undergo in the course of care. This discussion will include a brief overview of surgeries, and what these surgeries require from both patients and the institutions who provide care. We will then reflect on how transcare actually contributes to – and improves, care quality for all (i.e. cis-gender) adult and pediatric patients at an institution. Lastly, we will spend time focusing on how culturally sensitive care is, in fact, a safety issue for trans patients that come to our institutions, and, how not delivering culturally competent care should be a concern for institutions.
Community and workplace violence is a significant problem worldwide. Understanding how community-based violence spills over into the work setting is key to developing prevention strategies. When healthcare employees are victims of workplace violence, there can be significant psychological and physical trauma to the involved employee and collateral impacts to other staff. A multi-faceted approach is essential to protect our communities, workforce, patients and visitors from violence and to respond quickly, compassionately, and effectively when violent events occur.
Participants will learn about CommonSpirit’s approach to prevention of community and workplace violence and how one Division is responding to employees who are victims.
Syphilis continues to be a major public health concern in California, aggravated by the public health challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Emergency departments (EDs) represent an important setting to test and treat patients who are not seen in traditional outpatient clinical settings. The UC Davis emergency department has been screening high risk patients for syphilis since 2018. In this webinar, we will share best practices and recent results from this initiative.
