Newsroom & Reports
Perinatal Mental Health Learning Community Wrapping Up After Two Years
HQI’s Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) Learning Community is coming to a close at the end of this month. In the final monthly webinar, Kevin Gruenberg, PsyD, helped participants understand how perinatal mental health pertains to fathers as well as mothers.
The Impact of Bias on Quality and Patient Safety
Racial health disparities have been a major focus in health care in recent years. Growing research illustrates the negative impact implicit bias has on racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. The data reveal these groups experience higher rates of illness and death in a wide range of health conditions (diabetes, hypertension, obesity, asthma, and heart disease) when compared to whites. This can be a difficult issue to unpack, especially in health care, an industry that is designed ultimately […]
Latest Quality Transparency Dashboards Released in June
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.
ICYMI: Second Sentinel Signal Detection System Report Available
In case you missed it, last month HQI released its second report of findings from the sentinel signal detection system.
HQI Cares: Implementing BETA HEART Now Open for Enrollment
It’s official! HQI and BETA Healthcare Group have come together to offer California hospitals an unprecedented opportunity to advance patient safety. We have launched HQI Cares: Implementing BETA HEART®, a comprehensive, multi-year program designed to lead hospitals toward developing a reliable, sustainable culture of patient safety and consistent, empathetic and transparent responses to adverse events. While this cutting-edge program has already proven successful in BETA-member hospitals, our partnership with BETA now allows HQI to make the program available to the greater hospital community.
Hospital Quality Improvement Platform Quarterly Recruitment and Functionality Updates
Use of HQI’s Hospital Quality Improvement Platform — a quality analytics system that consolidates disparate data sources into a single, statewide platform — continues to increase as more hospitals complete their contract reviews. The platform is free to all CHA members.
Examining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Health Care Workers
Since states began establishing their vaccine plans late last year, health care workers were seen as a critical population for receiving the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. In parallel, the national vaccine rollout plan established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), made it a priority to provide the initial limited doses to health care workers. The aim was to protect not only frontline workers, but also to ensure the safety of their families, the patients they closely interact with, and the community at large
Look for CHPSO 2020 Annual Report in Mid-October
Every year, the Collaborative Healthcare Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO) provides members with an annual report highlighting patient safety-related activities, analytics, and a review of membership and database status. This annual report will cover Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2020. It will be available on the CHPSO website, and all members and newsletter subscribers will receive an email from CHPSO with […]
Coming Soon: HQI Cares: Implementing BETA HEART
HQI is excited to announce a partnership with BETA Healthcare Group to offer California hospitals a proven, comprehensive program that will guide them toward unprecedented progress in patient safety.