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The Southern California Patient Safety Collaborative (SCPSC) actively works to improve hospital’s clinical outcomes and reduce the number of avoidable medical errors at hospitals through a collaborative learning process. To facilitate this learning process, the SCPSC engages hospitals in quarterly meetings and web seminar presentations that promote peer-to-peer learning. These activities provide the opportunity to network and share ideas and strategies thereby accelerating the adoption of best practices for patient safety in their respective hospitals. The Collaborative operates two Tracks of focus: Track I concentrates on improving hospital-acquired infections and Track II concentrates on medication safety, pressure ulcers and handoff communication. Some issues addressed at these meetings include reducing ventilator associated pneumonia, reducing central line related blood stream infections, reducing medication errors from high-alert medications and improving medication reconciliation amongst others. Data collection for hospitals who have committed to implementing specific improvement strategies is on-going and used to track progress and guide collaborative activities.
- Provide annual quarterly meetings and webinars to hospital members’ staff to help facilitate patient safety and quality improvement practices.
- Decrease the rates of targeted hospital acquired infection rates at participating hospitals by facilitating the adoption of evidence-based practices.
- Expected outcomes for SCPSC include: more than 50% of hospitals implementing medication reconciliation improvement practices; more than 70% of hospitals implementing best practices related to high-risk medications; and all reporting hospitals maintaining rates of hospital acquired MRSA blood stream infection cases at below 1 MRSA blood stream case per 1,000 patient days.
- Engage hospital administration and CEOs in supporting changes targeted at improving patient safety.
- Demonstrate a successful peer-to-peer learning model for sharing best practices and strategies to improve quality of hospital care and decrease the risk and cases of inadvertent harm to patients.
- Promote compliance with Joint Commission, AHRQ, and CMS standards of care.
Funding for this program was generously provided by the UniHealth Foundation, Blue Shield Foundation and California Healthcare Foundation.
Hospital Association of Southern California, Convergence Health Consultants and Health Services Advisory Group.
Mia Arias, Phone: 213-538-0743, Email: marias@nhfca.org
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