Newsroom & Reports
Use of Hospital Quality Improvement Platform Continues to Increase
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.
Updated Quality Transparency Dashboards Will Be Available Soon
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.
A Look at California In-Hospital Maternal Mortality Rates by Race/Ethnicity and Language
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 Looking for Experts to Speak on Topics Like Staffing and RSV
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.
HQI Offers Programming on Health Equity
Health care disparities, defined as variation in quality and safety of care by patient sociodemographic characteristics, have been a significant and persistent problem in American health care. Simply put, there is no quality and safety without equity. While California hospitals and hospital systems have often been at the forefront of the quest to achieve health equity, […]
HQI Cares: Implementing BETA HEART® Expanding to Include 32 Hospitals in 2023
HQI Cares: Implementing BETA HEART®, a partnership with BETA Healthcare Group and Inland Empire Health Plan Hospital Pay-for-Performance Program, will expand from 24 to 32 hospitals next year.
Lessons Learned: A Webinar on Managing In-House Cardiac Arrest
In November, HQI- and CHPSO-member hospitals enjoyed an excellent webinar on managing in-house cardiac arrest, and The Joint Commission’s focus on hospital care and monitoring processes.
Connect with Peers While Focusing on Patient Safety at Annual Conference
Next month, and then again in November, we’ll gather in Long Beach and Napa, respectively for the HQI Annual Conference. After a two-year break, it will be a welcome opportunity to connect and re-connect with peers and experts and tap into patient safety excellence, while zeroing in on zero-harm care.
CHPSO Annual Report Now Available
In case you missed it, CHPSO recently released its 2021 Annual Report. The report details our activities and provides a look at CHPSO’s most significant work on your behalf.
HQI Cares: Implementing BETA HEART® Now Enrolling Hospitals for 2023
HQI Cares: Implementing BETA HEART, HQI’s program to help hospitals develop reliable, sustainable cultures of patient safety and systems of care for the caregivers, is progressing well in the inaugural cohort of 24 hospitals. Hospital enrollment is now open for 2023. If you’d like to discuss the program’s benefits and the potential enrollment of your […]