Educational Opportunities
Educational Opportunities
HQI and affiliates host webinars and discussion calls throughout the year to disseminate learning and better practices and provide tools that work. Or join other professionals at in-person events focused on quality and patient safety to learn about new and innovative solutions.
Critical Leadership Situations: Dealing with the Added Pressures of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Leaders are no strangers to pressure, but COVID-19 has intensified their stress.
Preventing Suicide in the Year following Birth: Lessons from California
We will review the largest US case review of suicides during and after pregnancy. The California study of 99 suicides made important findings regarding risk factors (race, age, underlying mental health disorders); when did suicides occur during pregnancy and postpartum to the year; type of psychiatric symptoms related to the suicide; and the contribution of substance use. We will also review missing and inadequate psychological and psychiatric services as important contributing factors as well as identifying critical warning signs.
Hospital Strategies for Combating Health Care Disparities
Health care disparities, defined as variation in quality and safety of care by patient sociodemographic characteristics, have been a significant and persistent problem in American health care. While California hospitals and hospital systems have often been at the forefront of the quest to achieve health care equity, significant work still remains ahead of us.
This page is intended to provide hospitals with select current resources and wisdom that can assist them in measuring, understanding, and alleviating disparities in care.
2020 HQI Annual Conference
Engage. Inspire. Lead.
POSTPONED TO 2021
In light of the latest COVID-19 development and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations, the Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) has cancelled its Annual Conference, scheduled for September 29-30 in Long Beach and November 15-16 in Napa.