Newsroom & Reports

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, […]

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 […]

Lessons Learned: Ambulatory Patient Safety

“Despite the fact that the vast majority of health care takes place in the outpatient, or ambulatory care, setting, efforts to improve safety have mostly focused on the inpatient setting.”1  This was the topic of discussion in August when CHPSO and HQI were privileged to share the arena with Anjana Sharma, MD, an assistant professor […]