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Quality & Patient Safety

Overview

Hospital Quality Institute and HASC Quality and Patient Safety Initiatives

Sacramento-based Hospital Quality Institute, or HQI, is the quality and patient safety arm of HASC, CHA and the Regional Associations. 

CHA founded HQI in 2013, and it has informed and educated on best practices since then. The institute also oversees and coordinates the Collaborative Health Care Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO).

A number of HASC-led quality and patient safety initiatives have also been completed in recent years. Examples are below.   

For more information on HQI, visit www.hqinstitute.org, or contact HQI President Robert Imhoff at (916) 552-7600 or rimhoff@hqinstitute.org.

HQI President Robert Imhoff.

Person-Centered Care Initiative & Final Report

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Person-Centered Care Initiative & Final Report

HASC completed a groundbreaking Person-Centered Care Pilot Initiative in March of 2019. The association brought the program to a successful conclusion working with four Southern California hospitals to advance person-centered care (PCC) concepts and models into the post-acute continuum of care.

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Safe Opioid Prescribing

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Safe Opioid Prescribing in Emergency Departments

Multiple state and national associations are working on this issue and each year brings new resources. The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) has made a compendium of resources available here, for various targeted providers and provider organizations.

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