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New! HQI is now publishing a Quality Transparency Dashboards Report that compares hospitals’ quality performance to state and national benchmarks. Read more below or see our step-by-step download instructions. HQI’s Quality Transparency Dashboard (QTD) leverages publicly available data on more than 90 quality measures to create hospital-specific dashboards highlighting performance on eight key metrics. Data […]

Hospital Quality Institute, in cooperation with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation and California Hospital Association,  creates quarterly dashboards of publicly-available quality data for each California Hospital Association short-term, acute-care member hospital. These dashboards provide information on eight measures. Our statewide goal is to have a Quality Transparency Dashboard or its equivalent published on every California hospital’s […]

“Lessons Learned” is a regular column in CHPSO’s bi-monthly Patient Safety News. Examples are derived directly from event reporting by hospitals, providing the opportunity to learn from each other’s experiences and demonstrating one of the benefits of sharing through a PSO.

Hospital Quality Institute, in cooperation with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation and California Hospital Association, has created dashboards of publicly-available quality data for each California Hospital Association short-term, acute-care member hospital. These dashboards provide information on eight measures. Hospitals may also add optional comments about performance and initiatives at that hospital. HQI encourages each hospital […]

Created in 2008 by the California Hospital Association,  the Collaborative Healthcare Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO) is a federally designated patient safety organization (PSO) dedicated to the elimination of preventable patient harm and improving the quality of health care delivery. With over 400 members in the United States, CHPSO is one of the largest PSOs in the nation and is […]