The Fast Facts document from the Nov. 8 Southern California Patient Safety Collaborative Track I meeting focusing on Hospital-Acquired Infections, Sepsis & Surgical Care Improvement Project will be available online this week at www.hasc.org.

Fast Facts, a one-page meeting summary of highlights, is distributed after the meeting. This communication tool is designed to offer senior leaders the information shared and to provide a tool that can be used to facilitate a short debriefing with meeting attendees.

Featured topics from this meeting included:

• Reduction of health care-acquired infections using the Steiros™ Algorithm
• Reducing Hospital-wide HAI: An Environmental Approach
• Unlocking the Plan: Key Messages from HHS

The Interactive Working Session featured Teams Overcoming Barriers to Achieve Improvement, and included a panel of hospitals that improved CLBSI and a panel of hospitals that improved sepsis mortality.

SCPSC meetings are presented by HASC, Health Services Advisory Group and the National Health Foundation, and take place at Pacific Palms Conference Resort, Industry Hills.

Partners for Patient Safety First…a California Partnership for Health include:

• Anthem Blue Cross
• The three regional hospital associations of California: Southern California, San Diego & Imperial Counties, and Northern & Central California
• The National Health Foundation