HQI Launches Patient Safety Partnership with Inland Empire Health Plan
HQI has established a vanguard new partnership with Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) to advance patient safety and caring for caregivers in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
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Recent Medical Error Case Highlights Need for Understanding, Not Punishment
Ensuring and improving patient safety has always been of the utmost importance for hospitals.
That’s why every year in March we celebrate Patient Safety Awareness Week — an annual recognition intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety. However, despite the continual focus on patient safety, medical errors do happen.
Best Practices in Substance Use Disorder Treatment in the ED
Over the past several decades, the United States has experienced a rising crisis in substance abuse. This is illustrated most dramatically by the rise in deaths from drug overdose. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention, the number of drug overdose deaths has quadrupled since 1999 [i]. More work needs to be […]
Telemedicine, Telehealth, and Virtual Care Throughout the Pandemic
It has been an unprecedented and taxing two years for front-line workers and patients alike. Nearly one of three patients delayed in-person health care visits in 2020 due to access issues and/or fear of exposure to COVID-19. According to a national poll, 57% of Americans experienced negative health repercussions, including and up to premature death. In […]
ALERT: Data Show Higher Percentage of Syphilis Among Pregnant Patients
The Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) through its Sentinel Signal Detection System has identified a significant increase in syphilis diagnoses among pregnant patients from 2020-2021. Specifically, the figure below indicates that syphilis prevalence doubled among pregnant patients from 2020 through June 2021 compared to 2019 (0.16% vs. 0.08%). The elevated syphilis prevalence is not unique to […]
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Did you know? $20.5B Each year, hospitals contribute more than $20.5 billion to support vulnerable populations, such as children, seniors, and low-income residents, in their communities.
Invitation to All Hospitals: Consider HQI Cares
HQI Cares: Implementing BETA HEART® is more than another hospital quality program. Instead, it is an answer to the greatest challenge hospitals have faced in generations: How can they keep patients safe while battling turnover and caring for an increasingly drained and depleted workforce?
Ask CHPSO: What Are the Benefits of Joining?
Several health care organizations have asked why they should join CHPSO instead of another federally listed patient safety organization.
One reason is to obtain the federal protections for certain patient safety data. These protections facilitate broad sharing of patient safety information both within and across organizations, which speeds learning and facilitates the elimination of patient safety hazards. As part of this protection, members can collaborate with other hospitals and health care organizations, usually at a Safe Table meeting.
Updated Quality Transparency Dashboards Now Available
HQI, in cooperation with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation and the 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.
Preview of the Third Sentinel Signal Detection Report
Sentinel signal detection systems automatically detect abnormal changes (i.e., signals) in the incidence of diagnosis codes from hospital discharge records in the Hospital Quality Improvement Platform (HQIP), as well as term frequencies from the Collaborative Healthcare Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO) safety reports.