Programs
Core Programs
HQI consists of several programs focusing on quality improvement and patient safety.
Each program works separately as well as integrated with each other so that reporting redundancy is eliminated, multiple contacts are minimized, and hospital staff focus on improvement goals with the entire support network of HQI.
The Hospital Quality Improvement Platform
Know where you are and where you’re going
Introducing the Hospital Quality Improvement Platform, HQI’s most dynamic analytical resource yet! The free Platform shows how you measure-up to hospitals in your area and statewide quality standards, and can help identify challenge areas and trends to improve performance. It gives you:
HQI Cares Introduces BETA HEART®
Implementing BETA HEART® to Build a Culture of Safety.
HQI Cares is more than a sound investment in patient safety and staff health – it’s the right thing to do. HQI Cares guides you every step of the way to a true culture of safety.
Collaborative Healthcare Patient Safety Organization
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Created in 2008 by the California Hospital Association, the Collaborative Healthcare Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO) is a federally designated patient safety organization (PSO) dedicated to the elimination of preventable patient harm and improving the quality of health care delivery.
Hospital Quality Transparency Dashboard
Hospital Quality Institute, in cooperation with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation and California Hospital Association, has created dashboards of publicly-available quality data for each California Hospital Association short-term, acute-care member hospital. These dashboards provide information on eight measures. Hospitals may also add optional comments about performance and initiatives at that hospital. HQI encourages each hospital to publish the information in the dashboard to its public-facing website to increase hospital quality transparency.
Maternal and Child Health
HQI runs several programs to assist members in improving maternal and child health.
Sentinel Signal Detection Reporting
HQI’s sentinel signal detection system automatically detects abnormal changes (i.e., signals) in the incidence of diagnosis codes from hospital discharge records in the Hospital Quality Improvement Platform (HQIP), as well as term frequencies from the Collaborative Healthcare Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO) safety reports.