Health care professionals interested in learning more about HAI Prevention, Sepsis Management and Surgical Care Improvement can review highlights from the most recent Southern California Patient Safety Collaborative Track I meeting on this topic.

Fast Facts from the Aug. 7 meeting is available online at http://www.hasc.org/fact-sheet/fast-facts-14. The one-page meeting summary of highlights is distributed after each SCPSC 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 113 attendees from 51 hospitals and other health care organizations. Featured topics from this meeting included:

• Sepsis: The Impact, Options for Improvement and Simulation Training
• Reducing HAIs Participant Session
• Surgical Safety – Focus on Retained Surgical Items (RSI)
• CLABSI, CAUTI, and VAP: Our Progress to Date, and Year-End Challenge
• SimSuite Mobile Simulation Lab Open House Demonstration
• Surgical Care Operating Room Excellence

SCPSC meetings are presented by HASC, Health Services Advisory Group and 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
• National Health Foundation