Newsroom & Reports
Hospital Quality Improvement Platform Enrollment Continues To Grow
Use of HQI’s new Hospital Quality Improvement Platform — a quality analytics system that consolidates disparate data sources into a single, statewide platform — has increased since the last quarter. The platform is free to all California Hospital Association (CHA) members.
CHPSO, HQI Launch Series of Webinars on Suicide Prevention
National and global organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization acknowledge that suicide is a significant public health issue that has escalated in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased concerns around suicide due to a variety of issues ranging from social isolation to financial hardship. In order to raise awareness and help promote suicide prevention, the CHPSO and HQI hosted the first in a series of webinars on the topic. Given the heavy burden health care providers shouldered, even before the pandemic, combined with the added stressors of caring for patients in these unprecedent times, we chose to start the series on Sept. 10 — World Suicide Prevention Day., The webinar focused on some of our most vulnerable front-line workers – our nurses – as studies have shown the nurses have a greater risk for suicide then age and gender matched populations.
HQI President’s Message
“Quality is not an act; it is a habit.” – Aristotle
As patient safety and quality improvement professionals, you understand those words better than most. The work you do isn’t defined by a sales metric or accomplishment of a task, but rather by incremental improvement — your journey from providing good patient care to great patient care.
Perinatal Mental Health Learning Community Program Update
Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders continue to be the most common complication of childbirth. HQI’s Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) Learning Community seeks to strengthen hospital approaches to perinatal mental health through specially tailored learning and peer-exchange opportunities, which include webinars, group office hours, individual coaching, and online training and educational resources. These are all available to California hospitals free of charge, courtesy of a grant from the California Health Care Foundation.
Lessons Learned – Sepsis and Covid-19
One of the most popular educational offerings available to CHPSO members are the regularly scheduled Safe Table forums. Offered about two dozen times per year, these meetings are focused on safety and quality improvement topics, each with a specific clinical focus. As a members-only patient safety activity, these confidential forums occur within each participant’s patient safety evaluation system and provide a safe space in which to explore systematic concerns or issues and share lessons […]
Hospital-Level Relationships Between Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 and COVID-19 Hospitalization Rates
Following up on our previous work on County-Level Relationships Between Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 and Deaths, we applied similar methods to hospital-level data to explore the relationship between the prevalence of several hospital-level risk factors for severe COVID-19 and corresponding COVID-19 hospitalization rates at those hospitals. We used historical hospital inpatient, emergency department, and ambulatory surgery discharge records for California hospitals to estimate the patient population prevalence of several potential risk factors for developing severe COVID-19. In addition to the risk factors included in the prior analysis, we also included race/ethnicity in these analyses, though patient gender was excluded.
Enrollment Continues for New HQI Data Analytics Platform
Enrollment continues for HQI’s new Hospital Quality Improvement Platform — a quality analytics system that consolidates disparate data sources into a single, statewide platform. The platform is free to all California Hospital Association (CHA) members.
Sepsis and Covid-19
One of the most popular educational offerings available to CHPSO members are the regularly scheduled Safe Table forums. Offered about two dozen times per year, these meetings are focused on safety and quality improvement topics, each with a specific clinical focus. As a members-only patient safety activity, these confidential forums occur within each participant’s patient safety evaluation system and provide a safe space in which to explore systematic concerns or issues and share lessons […]
Updated Quality Transparency Dashboards Released for Third Quarter of 2020
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:
County-Level Relationships Between Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 and Deaths
More than 190,000 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in California as of June 2020, resulting in over 5,600 deaths. Several potential risk factors for developing severe COVID-19 have been identified, including older age and various underlying medical conditions. HQI estimated the relationships between county-wide prevalence of several of these risk factors and COVID-19-related deaths/death rates in California counties using estimates of prevalence from historical statewide hospital inpatient, emergency department, and ambulatory surgery discharge records.
