Senior executives, physician champions, quality professionals and nursing leaders will gather for the second-annual Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) Conference this Nov. 11-13 in Sacramento.

The theme is Respect, Reliability and Resilience. Attendees will learn how to build these attributes into their organizations by listening to keynote speakers of national renown and by learning about measurable successes at peer California hospitals. Participants will also take away valuable strategies to power their own journeys toward high-reliability, quality health care. 

Patient Safety First (PSF) Collaborative hospitals will have an opportunity to send OB and Sepsis staff members who care for patients to two different simulation trainings focused on real-life scenarios, advancing the participants’ knowledge and skills in preventing serious complications for their patients. These simulation trainings are an extraordinary value, offered at no charge.

The Patient Safety First Collaborative (PSF) is inviting all HASC area hospitals to join this award-winning, life-saving Collaborative.

HASC hospitals in the Southern California Patient Safety First (SCPSF) Collaborative in 2015 will enjoy another great year of programming to help them:

• Reduce sepsis mortality
• Prevent “never events” in Surgical Services
• Decrease C- Difficile infection
• Enhance Perinatal Safety by addressing the C-Section rate, EED, and Ob Hemorrhage

At the third Patient Safety First Phase 2 Collaborative Meeting in 2014 on Sept. 17, 121 attendees from 53 hospitals congregated to focus on the theme It Takes a Village: Collaborating to Save Lives.

View the presentations in detail. Fast Facts from this meeting are available here.

Don’t miss the patient safety conference of the year, the Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) Inaugural Annual Conference Nov. 6-7 in Huntington Beach: Accelerate Excellence 2014. The HASC Patient Safety Colloquium was not held earlier this year, so that our quality professionals, nurse leaders, physician champions and executive directors might take advantage of this broader statewide opportunity.

The Southern California Patient Safety First Collaborative Event on June 10, Culture Trumps Strategy: Digging Deeper, features special content on Safe Prescribing Guidelines for Emergency Departments, as the Greater Los Angeles area seeks to prevent abuse and overdose involving prescribed pain medications.

Patient Safety First (PSF) Collaborative hospitals will enjoy extraordinary value in Sepsis Simulation Training throughout the month of May, featuring high-tech simulation equipment, and the expertise of Medical Simulation Corporation educators.

The Patient Safety First Phase 2 Collaborative Meeting, focusing on Sepsis, Surgical Safety, Perinatal Safety and HAI – C. Difficile, convened 128 attendees from 45 of 81 PSF Collaborative hospitals in early November.

The full Fast Facts document, a one-page summary of meeting highlights distributed after each meeting and designed to offer senior leaders a communication tool that can be used to facilitate a short debriefing with meeting attendees, is available online at http://www.hasc.org/fact-sheet/fast-facts-18.

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Anthem Blue Cross, National Health Foundation and the Regional Hospital Associations recently received URAC’s Silver Award in the Health Plan category for their Patient Safety First… a California Partnership for Health program. The award recognizes the achievements of organizations in the areas of care coordination and clinical integration, health plans, and quality measurement and data analytics.

Health care professionals interested in learning more about, Sepsis, Surgical Safety, Perinatal Safety and HAI – C. Difficile can review highlights from the most recent Phase II kickoff Southern California Patient Safety First Collaborative meeting.

The Southern California Patient Safety First Collaborative will kick off Phase 2 on March 12 at the Pacific Palms Conference Resort in the City of Industry.

Many of our hospitals from Phase 1 (2010 through 2012) are continuing with the Collaborative, and all other HASC member hospitals are invited to join.

Participating hospitals will enjoy valuable resources and peer-to-peer learning throughout 2013 in four clinical focus areas: Sepsis Mortality, C. Difficile HAI prevention, Surgical Safety, and Perinatal Safety.

More than 300 people are registered for the Southern California Patient Safety Colloquium, Jan. 23, at the Hyatt Regency – Orange County. Each year this popular educational conference features top leaders in quality and patient safety presenting best practices in the field.

Register now to get the early bird rate for the most valuable one-day conference of the year, the 5th Annual Southern California Patient Safety Colloquium, Jan. 23 at the Hyatt Regency Orange County. Bring a team of three or more and tuition is only $99 per person.

This program will inspire and equip your team to successfully navigate health care reform. Breakout Track #6 is for senior executives and physician leaders who want to strengthen partnerships as they explore health care delivery options for their communities.

Create a culture of situational awareness, mutual support and a shared mental model in your hospital through TeamSTEPPS.

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.

The 5th Annual Southern California Patient Safety Colloquium will offer a comprehensive look at “What’s Best & What’s Next” in quality and patient safety. Senior leaders, physician champions, clinical experts and others are invited to demonstrate how their team, program or organization is thriving as one of this year’s breakout session presenters.

HASC, in partnership with the Wound Care Education Institute (WCEI), will bring members of Southern California’s hospitals, long-term care providers and home health agencies a four-day skin and wound management training course followed by a certification examination. Use discount code HASC12 to save $600.

The session will take place Aug. 13-17 at the Double Tree Norwalk.

The most recent Fast Facts documents from the Southern California Patient Safety Collaborative are now available online.

HASC, in partnership with the Wound Care Education Institute (WCEI), will bring members of Southern California’s hospitals, long-term care providers and home health agencies a four-day skin and wound management training course followed by a certification examination.

The session will take place June 7-10 at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Burbank.

Eighty attendees representing 30 hospitals from the HASC region discussed critical points of perinatal safety at the April 10 Southern California Patient Safety Collaborative Track III meeting. Highlights from the meeting are available in the latest Fast Facts.

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HASC, in partnership with the Wound Care Education Institute (WCEI), will bring members of Southern California’s hospitals, long-term care providers and home health agencies a four-day skin and wound management training course followed by a certification examination. Both will be offered at four locations in Southern California.

The next session will take place April 2-6 at the Goleta Valley Medical Office, 5333 Hollister Ave. in  Santa Barbara.

The Fast Facts document from the Feb. 7 Southern California Patient Safety Collaborative Track I meeting focusing on Hospital-Acquired Infections, Sepsis & Surgical Care Improvement Project is available now.

There is still time to register for the 2012 Southern California Patient Safety Colloquium, Jan. 19 at the Doubletree Hotel Ontario Airport in Ontario. For more information, including registration and the complete agenda, please visit http://www.hasc.org/2012colloquium.

Register now for HASC’s fourth annual Southern California Patient Safety Colloquium, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 at the Doubletree Hotel Ontario Airport.

Attendees can choose from sessions in the following tracks: Hospital-Acquired Infection/Hospital-Acquired Conditions; Executive; Surgical Safety; Perinatal Safety; Culture Change; and Continuum of Care.

Registration rates are as follows:

The Fast Facts document from the Nov. 15 Southern California Patient Safety Collaborative Track III meeting focusing on Perinatal Safety is available online at www.hasc.org.

Registration is currently open for HASC’s fourth annual Southern California Patient Safety Colloquium, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 at the Doubletree Hotel Ontario Airport. The theme for the event is TRIP: Transforming Research Into Practice.

The next Track I meeting of the Southern California Patient Safety Collaborative, focusing on Hospital-Acquired Infections, Sepsis & Surgical Care Improvement Project, will take place Nov. 8.

Register now.

Register now for HASC and Wound Care Education Institute’s (WCEI) training and certification, scheduled to take place Oct. 10-14 at Children’s Hospital Orange County.

The Aug. 9 Track I meeting of the Southern California Patient Safety Collaborative, focusing on Hospital-Acquired Infections, Sepsis & Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP), drew 99 attendees.

The June 21 Track II meeting of the Southern California Patient Safety Collaborative focused on Facility-Acquired Pressure Ulcers, Readmissions and Transitions of Care.

Fast Facts, a one-page meeting summary of highlights, is distributed after the meeting. This communication tool is designed to offer senior leaders the information shared and to provide a tool that can be used to facilitate a short debriefing with meeting attendees. For Fast Facts from this meeting, please visit the SCPSC Track II section of www.hasc.org.
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