Imhoff joins HQI after heading the Maryland Patient Safety Center for seven years. As President and CEO there, he successfully partnered with hospitals to lead multiple improvement efforts, including their perinatal/neonatal quality collaborative, sepsis mortality reduction, falls reduction, and one of the most rigorous hand hygiene compliance programs in the nation. He also led efforts […]
Quality and patient safety positions at your organization may be listed on the CHPSO Job Board free of charge. If you are a member of CHPSO, the California Hospital Association or key partner of the Hospital Quality Institute and would like to list your opportunities on this page, please contact info@chpso.org. The following guidelines apply: The opportunity […]
CHPSO periodically releases urgent information regarding patient safety. Members subscribed to our mailing list will automatically receive alerts via email.
CHPSO hosts a variety of patient safety-focused events throughout the year, including webinars, Safe Tables, and an annual conference.
The Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) was established to realize statewide impact of improving patient safety and quality care for all Californians, to accelerate the rate of improvement, and to advance California as a national leader in quality performance. HQI was founded as a 501(c)(3) organization through a collaboration of the California Hospital Association (CHA), Hospital […]
HQI’s sentinel signal detection system automatically detects 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. Latest Reports
The Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) Learning Community was HQI’s initiative to provide California hospitals with education, technical assistance, and peer support to strengthen perinatal mental health. The program concluded in December 2021. However, key resources developed remain on this website for ongoing free use by hospitals, as needed. Any questions regarding the resources on this […]
HQI consists of several programs focusing on quality improvement and patient safety. Each program works separately as well as integrated with each other so that reporting redundancy is eliminated, multiple contacts are minimized, and hospital staff focus on improvement goals with the entire support network of HQI.
AHRQ In 2004, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, a staff survey designed to help hospitals assess the culture of safety in their institutions. Since then, hundreds of hospitals across the U.S. and internationally have implemented the survey. In response to requests from hospitals interested […]