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.
Combating Disparities in Clinical Encounters (Part II): Protecting Patients from Social Identity Threat & Racial Trauma
A prerequisite for universally high quality, equitable care is understanding and addressing how societal/structural inequities affect quality and patient safety in clinical encounters. Yet the ways in which these inequities can permeate and undermine patient care are not always apparent to health care staff and providers.
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.