Join us for the 5th Annual Southern California Patient Safety Colloquium, set for January 23, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Orange County.

Explore best—and next—policies and practices in quality and patient safety at this dynamic annual forum bringing together executives and advocates from a cross section of care organizations including hospitals, health systems, post-acute care providers and more. Mark your calendars and tell a colleague! 

Agenda

Here is a tentative agenda for the days’ events:

Sign Up for Stellar Breakout Sessions 

Each year the event features leading topics in quality and patient safety for nurses, physicians, risk managers and more. This year’s breakout sessions feature:  

Embracing t​he Continuum – It Takes  a Village

​Objectives

• Design care strategies that sustain health and safety through collaboration across care settings
• Enhance the patient experience by providing more effectively for post-acute needs

Wellness for You and Your Organization - Practicing What We Preach 

Objectives

• Create a positive and profitable environment with teamwork and a just culture
• Practice wellness strategies that will support balance, strength, and joy in the workday

The Right Stuff – Saving Lives

Objectives

• Discuss interventions that have saved lives in patients with sepsis, stroke or cardiac events
• Implement data collection and reporting techniques that tell the right story

Error Prevention in Clinical Specialty Areas – Chasing Zero

​Objectives

• Outline the necessary steps for preventing medical errors in specific clinical specialty areas
• Describe new practices and/or technologies that are helping us get closer to zero

Lean and Clean – Preventing HAI

Objectives

• Learn new strategies for the environment of care to minimize MRSA and C. Difficile
• Apply Lean methodology in refining HAI prevention practices

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

Objectives

• Facilitate collaboration between executives and physicians in planning future care models
• Foster physician leadership in comprehensive unit-based safety programs (CUSP) and in transforming the culture of communication with the patient care team

The 2013 SCPS Colloquium promises educational excellence and real-world solutions–don’t miss out. For more information, contact Julia Slininger, (213) 538-0766 or jslininger@hasc.org.