Newsroom & Reports
Medication and Equipment Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to health care systems worldwide, with medication and equipment shortages emerging as critical issues. To gain insights into how health care organizations navigated these shortages and their impact on patient treatment, CHPSO conducted analyses, drawing from patient safety event records.
Kamali Jones is HQI’s New Safety & Reliability Clinical Advisor
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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date. Kamali Jones has joined HQI as a safety & reliability clinical advisor. Kam is an RN and comes to HQI from Adventist Health, where he served as a clinical education manager for the past five years. In his role at HQI, […]
HQI Cares Offering Complimentary Patient Safety Gap Analysis
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While 32 hospitals are already successfully participating in HQI Cares: Implementing BETA HEART®, HQI would like to encourage a wider field to benefit from this remarkable program.
Recruitment Continues for Hospital Quality Improvement Platform
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Recruitment for HQI’s updated Hospital Quality Improvement Platform (HQIP) — a quality analytics system that consolidates disparate data sources into a single, statewide platform — is continuing, with an emphasis on reconnecting with those hospitals that had expressed interest prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Webinar Review: Barton Health Medication Reconciliation — Cultivating a Gold Standard
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On June 7, attendees at the Collaborative Healthcare Patient Safety Organization’s (CHPSO) Safe Table had a chance to hear from Barton Health about medication reconciliation and its approach to this difficult process.
Tackling the Issue of Workplace Violence
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Getting physically and verbally abused has become far too commonplace for health care workers. And while these circumstances against health care workers are nothing new, they have steadily increased over the past decade and were further exacerbated by the pandemic.
Analysis Paper: Workplace Violence in Hospitals: Issues, Trends, Prevention, and Response
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Ask CHPSO: Do Hospitals Use Color-Coded Wristband Identification and, If So, What Colors Do They Use?
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Recently, CHPSO received an inquiry about the use of color-coded patient wristbands in California hospitals. To assess whether there is a national movement toward standardized armband color adoption, CHPSO surveyed its more than 485 member hospitals across 21 states.
Register Now for Patient Safety Evaluation System Summit
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The online Patient Safety Evaluation System (PSES) Summit, which will be held over two half-days, is set for May 9-10.
Updated Quality Transparency Dashboards Now Available
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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, with over 90 total measures on the data tab.
