The July 13 Track III meeting of the Southern California Patient Safety Collaborative, focusing on Perinatal Safety, drew 75 attendees.

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. Read the Fast Facts.

Key topics from the meeting included:

• TeamSTEPPS helps prevent birth trauma
• Quantitative Progress – Reaching for our Goal!
• Julia Slininger, RN, BS, CPHQ, Hospital Association of Southern California
• The Neurologically Compromised Newborn: A Checklist for the First 24 Hours
• Larry Veltman, M.D., FACOG, Risk Management & Patient Safety Institute
• Connecting the Docs! Can regional collaboration and telemedicine in the IE improve patient outcomes and ease the burdens of providing complex care?
• Gretchen Page, MPH, CNM Inland Counties Regional Perinatal Program, Glen Thomazin MD, IEHP, Denise Cummins, LLUMC Perinatal Institute, Rosa Ortega, MCH Director St. Mary Medical Center
• The March of Dimes Perinatal Safety Project Update
• Victoria Lombardo, Associate State Director of Program Services

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