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 July 16 meeting is available online at http://www.hasc.org/fact-sheet/fast-facts-17. 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 122 attendees from 50 of our 79 PSF Collaborative hospitals. Featured topics from this meeting included:

• Leadership for Collaboration
• Becoming a Physician Champion
• Lean Thinking: Applications for Patient Safety Goals
• Telling the “Story”: A Patient-Centered Approach to Quality and Patient Safety

Eight clinical breakout sessions focused on:

Surgical Safety
No Thing Left Behind: Sponge Accounting
Perioperative Risks Associated with SDB

Sepsis Management
How Methodist Hospital Is Tackling Sepsis
Sepsis Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach

HAI- C. Difficile
Lean Practicum: Process Mapping
LAC DPH: Your Partner in CDI Prevention

Perinatal Safety
Elective Deliveries <39 weeks: How Visiting the Zoo Can Help Solve the Problem
Healthy Babies Are Worth the Wait

SCPSC meetings are presented by HASC and National Health Foundation. The next meeting will be a Web series scheduled for Oct. 2. The next in-person meeting will be Nov. 5 at the Quiet Canon, Montebello Country Club.

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