Are you a leader in quality and patient safety? Is your finger on the pulse of industry change? Then we want to hear from you.

The 2013 Southern California Patient Safety Colloquium is seeking presenters offering a unique perspective on what’s best and what’s next for quality and patient safety professionals. Each year our one-day event draws a range of representatives from hospitals, health systems, clinics and other health care organizations interested in better results for their departments and organizations.

Bring your ideas and innovative solutions to the table as a leader of one of the following breakout tracks (download the proposal guidelines):

Embracing the Continuum – It Takes a Village

• Topics include care transitions, readmissions reduction and facilitating patient self-management; addressing the collaboration between acute and post-acute care settings; and a connection to measurably enhancing the patient experience.

Wellness for You and Your Organization – Practicing What We Preach

• Topics include stress management (live and interactive), a Just Culture for patient safety and risk management, effective teamwork in the everyday work environment, and keys to balanced living.

The Right Stuff – Saving Lives

• Topics include preventing sepsis mortality, excellence in stroke intervention/unit certification, and cardiac surgery/interventional cardiology excellence. All presentations will include data to demonstrate numbers of lives saved.

Error Prevention in Clinical Specialty Areas – Chasing Zero

• Topics include interventions to make surgery safer (preventing RSI and/or other surgical complications); making radiology and imaging safer (preventing radiation over-exposure and harm that can result from misreads); and perinatal safety issues including preventing EED, managing obstetrical emergencies, and/or prevention of newborn trauma/injury.

Lean and Clean – Preventing HAI

• Topics include new strategies for the environment of care that minimize microbial contamination and control C. Diff and MRSA; achieving success with hand hygiene expectations; getting to zero in device-related HAI; and the Lean approach–identifying and eliminating “muda.”

Is There a Doctor in the House? – Leadership Strategies Engaging Physicians

• Topics include new collaboration strategies (including Blue Ocean concepts) with ACOs on the horizon, successful TeamSTEPPS interventions involving physicians, the proven value of multidisciplinary rounding, physicians’ experiences on CUSP teams, and pursuing the triple aim.

The conference planning committee encourages proposals from organizations representing diverse points of view on how to deliver exceptional quality care to patients, families and the communities served. Visit www.hasc.org/2013Colloquium for more information about the event or download the formal Request for Proposal. You can also contact Julia Slininger at (213) 538-0766 or jslininger@hasc.org.