The Patient Safety First Phase 2 Collaborative Meeting, focusing on Sepsis, Surgical Safety, Perinatal Safety and HAI – C. Difficile, convened 128 attendees from 45 of 81 PSF Collaborative hospitals in early November.

The full Fast Facts document, a one-page summary of meeting highlights distributed after each meeting and designed to offer senior leaders a communication tool that can be used to facilitate a short debriefing with meeting attendees, is available online at http://www.hasc.org/fact-sheet/fast-facts-18.

Topics included:

• Learning from Experience: The Human Cost of Medical Errors
• Learning from Successful Strategies on a National Scale: Project Joints
• Learning from the AACN: Six Essential Standards for Healthy Work Environments

In addition, eight clinical breakout sessions were attended by the hospitals’ respective clinical topic leads. The topics were:

Surgical Safety
• Analyzing Failures in Sponge Accounting
• Improving Team Dynamics

Sepsis Management
• Initiating MEWS in the ER: Identifying Sepsis Cases
• CVP Monitoring: Theory, Effectiveness, & Alternatives

HAI – C. Difficile
• Hand Hygiene Program Design & Development
• Getting to ZERO with C. Difficile: A Facilitated Discussion

Perinatal Safety
• Stemming the Increase in C Section Deliveries
• CMDCC Resources for Your Perinatal Safety Program

In 2014, Patient Safety First meetings will begin on March 11 at the Pacific Palms Conference Center in Industry Hills.

Contact: Julia Slininger
(213) 538-0766, jslininger@hasc.org