Health care professionals interested in learning more about, Sepsis, Surgical Safety, Perinatal Safety and HAI – C. Difficile can review highlights from the most recent Phase II kickoff Southern California Patient Safety First Collaborative meeting.

Fast Facts from the March 12 meeting is available online at http://www.hasc.org/fact-sheet/fast-facts-16. The one-page meeting summary of highlights is distributed after each SCPSFC meeting and is designed to offer senior leaders a communication tool that can be used to facilitate a short debriefing with meeting attendees.

The meeting included 132 attendees from 58 of our 76 PSF Collaborative hospitals. Featured topics from this meeting included:

• A Patient Story
• The 2013-2014 Collaborative Charter
• Measurement, Reporting and Web Portal Resources
• Best Practices in Leadership – Strengthening Your Culture for Patient Safety

Eight clinical breakout sessions focused on:

Surgical Safety
Retained Sponge/Towel – A Never Event!
CHPSO as your Surgical Safety Partner

Sepsis Management
Sepsis Management – High Tech & Low Tech
EMCrit Podcast Review of the 2012 Guidelines, and Asking the Right Questions

HAI- C. Difficile
Comparing the Guidelines
C. Difficile, the Misunderstood Pathogen

Perinatal Safety
Avoiding the Undertow
A Community-Based Approach to Preventing Planned Deliveries Before 39 weeks

SCPSC meetings are presented by HASC and National Health Foundation. The next meeting of the Southern California Patient Safety First Collaborative will be on July 16.

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
• National Health Foundation

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