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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 (view breakout sessions’ schedule here):

2013 SCPS Colloquium - What’s Best & What’s Next in Quality & Patient Safety

Wednesday, January 23, 2013
7:30am-3:45pm

Event Media

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Breakout Session Topics

View the schedule here.

Embracing t​he 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.

​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 

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. 

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

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. 

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

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.

​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

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.”

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

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.

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

Sponsorship

Please contact us today ensure your participation.

Platinum Sponsor – $5,000 (6 available)

• Special recognition as the keynote speaker sponsor and as breakout track host 
• Four (4) full conference registrations
• Banner featuring company logo
• An 8′ x 10′ exhibit booth with a six-foot table and two chairs in the conference vendor area
• Prominent recognition on a digital display

Ruby Sponsor – $3,000 (6 available)

• Recognition as a sponsor of either breakfast (2 available), lunch (2 available) or breakout room (2 available)
• Two (2) full conference registrations
• A six-foot table and two chairs in premier location
• Recognition on a digital display 

Gold Sponsor – $1,500 (4 available)

• One (1) full conference registration
• A six-foot table for a tabletop display in the conference vendor area
• Recognition on a digital display

Silver Sponsor – $1,000 (3 available)

• One (1) full conference registration
• Recognition on a digital display 

No vending opportunity is offered at this level.

For more information, contact Julia Slininger, (213) 538-0766 or jslininger@hasc.org.

Target Audience: CEOs, CNOs, COOs and CMOs; quality, case management, patient safety, and infection control professionals; perinatal and surgical nurse leaders.

Thank You, Sponsors

Thank you 2013 Southern California Patient Safety Colloquium Sponsors

RUBY

Healing HealthCare Systems
The C.A.R.E. Channel enhances the environment of care with 24/7 access to soothing therapeutic music and nature imagery. Our unique day/night format designed to support recuperative rest and reduce noise, stress and patients’ startle response.
700 Smithridge Drive, Suite A102
Reno, NV 89502
775-827-0300
www.healinghealth.com

Gold

Blue Sky Broadcast
Founded in 2002, Blue Sky Broadcast is headquartered in San Diego, with satellite offices in Minneapolis, MN and Nashville, TN. We provide associations, societies, pharmaceutical companies and corporations online learning and event solutions.
5930 Cornerstone Court West, Suite 270
San Diego, CA 92121
877-925-8375
www.blueskybroadcast.com

California Association for Healthcare Quality
Founded in 1977, the California Association for Healthcare Quality promotes health care quality and patient safety by providing leadership in the Industry, networking, education and resources.
4570 Van Nuys Boulevard, # 326
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
800-230-3163
www.CAHQ.org

Medical Simulation Corporation
Medical Simulation Corporation accelerates the adoption of evidence-based medicine through online and simulation-based programs for health care professionals in disease process areas that are the most costly to hospitals in terms of patient lives and expense.
4643 S. Ulser Street, #650
Denver, CO 80237
303-483-2800
www.medsimulation.com

OB Hospitalist Group
Ob Hospitalist Group leads the industry in developing and managing 24/7 in-house OB/GYN hospitalist programs. With our unparalleled commitment to the quality and safety of women’s health care, we have developed a unique, cost-effective OB/GYN hospitalist program for Labor and Delivery departments nationwide.
10 Centimeters Drive, Mauldin, SC 29662
800-967-2289
www.obhg.com

Radisphere National Radiology Group
Founded in 2001, Radisphere leverages its scale and technology to promote faster, more accurate diagnoses, appropriate utilization, and the highest quality of patient care to drive growth and lower costs.
3700 Park East
Beachwood, OH 44122
866-437-7237
www.radispheregroup.com

Sprixx, Inc.
Sprixx Advanced Clinical Hand Hygiene provides point‐of‐care alcohol gel dispensers with multiple body‐attachment options for simple, instant dispensing, instant hand sanitation and instant 100% compliance with Your 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene. The WHO, CDC and IHI compliant reporting system includes real‐time audit feedback and educational support.
51 Santa Felicia Drive
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
866-4-SPRIXX / 866-477-7499
www.sprixx.com

UltraViolet Devices, Inc.
UltraViolet Devices, Inc. is a leading ISO 9001 manufacturer of UV-C products for disinfecting water, air and surfaces.  The V-360 UV Room Sanitizer rapidly disinfects surfaces in patient care areas & OR’s using proprietary high output ultraviolet light, achieving 99% surface disinfection in minutes.
26145 Technology Drive
Valencia, CA  91355
661-295-8140
www.uvdi.com

West Coast University
West Coast University’s singular focus is educating health care professionals. With three campuses in Southern California, we offer undergraduate degrees in nursing and dental hygiene, and graduate degrees in nursing and health care management. A newly opened Dallas campus also offers undergraduate degrees in nursing.
151 Innovation Drive, Irvine, CA 92617
949-783-4800
www.westcoastuniversity.edu

Silver

American Health Connection
The American Health Connection provides medical call-center services with advanced technology to help eliminate dropped calls, reduce no-shows and increase patient satisfaction.  Our live agents professionally handle calls, schedule appointments and route urgent and non-urgent calls 24 hours a day, 365 days a year including nights, weekends and holidays. 
8484 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 501
Beverly Hills, CA  90211
310-927-7910
www.AmericanHealthConnection.com

BETA Healthcare Group
BETA Healthcare Group (BETA) is the largest insurer of hospital professional liability coverage in California, serving more than 100 hospitals and health care facilities. BETA also insures more than 70 medical groups representing over 5,000 physicians.
1443 Danville Boulevard
Alamo, CA 94507
800-838-4111
www.betahg.com

California Healthcare Insurance Company, Inc. A Risk Retention Group (CHI)
Formed in 1988, member-owned CHI is a part of the alternative insurance market with a mission to provide high-quality liability risk control and risk financing products and services to its members. Optima Healthcare Insurance Services is CHI’s wholly owned, full-service brokerage company that provides ancillary insurance products for CHI members and other health care providers.
9229 Sierra College Boulevard
Roseville, CA 95661
916-773-3992
www.optimahealthcare.com