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Save the date: First annual CHPSO meeting March 13, 2012 in Burbank, California. Take a stand for patient safety.

Register at www.cvent.com/d/8cq8p2/4W.

Co-sponsored by the California HealthCare Foundation and Kaiser Permanente.

Who Should Attend?

  • Hospital Executives
  • Quality, Risk, & Patient Safety Leaders
  • Nursing Leaders
  • Pharmacy Leaders
  • Physician Leaders

Download the brochure and registration form.

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CHA members can join CHPSO at no charge, as a CHA member benefit. Visit our membership information page for details.

Caring is Our Calling logo

The California Hospital Assocation has launched a new safe patient care campaign — “Caring is Our Calling” — to inform the public about how California’s community hospitals are leading the way into a new era of patient safety. The campaign will also empower everyone — patients, family members, health care workers and hospital visitors — to help prevent the spread infections by washing hands, getting annual flu shots and vaccinations.

California Hospital Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO)

Dedicated to eliminating preventable harm and improving the quality of health care delivery in California hospitals.

  • First in series of CHPSO webinars on "handoff" communications Jan. 24

    Breakdowns in patient "handoff" communication continue to be a leading cause of preventable patient harm. The California Hospital Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO) is offering a series of webinars for its members that provide strategies to improve patient safety when one provider hands over the responsibility of care to another. The four-part series will address handoff tools, technology use, training programs, metrics, and hospital successes. The first webinar takes place Jan. 24 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. (PT), and covers handoff tools and the results of a handoff survey that CHPSO conducted last fall in collaboration with the North Carolina Center for Hospital Quality and Patient Safety. Subsequent webinars will be held from 9:30-10:30 am, PST, Feb. 28, March 27, and April 24. Space is limited. To register for these member-only webinars, contact Colleen Meacham, cmeacham@chpso.org, (916) 552-7651. CHPSO membership is available at no charge for members of CHA and the Regional Associations. For membership information call CHPSO Executive Director, Rory Jaffe, M.D., M.B.A., (916) 552-7568.

  • CHPSO Patient Safety News, Volume 4, Number 11.

    The first 2012 monthly edition of CHPSO Patient Safety News has been released.

  • CHPSO Patient Safety News, Volume 3, Number 12.

    The twelfth 2011 monthly edition of CHPSO Patient Safety News has been released.

  • CHPSO Patient Safety News, Volume 3, Number 11.

    The eleventh 2011 monthly edition of CHPSO Patient Safety News has been released.

  • Retained surgical items initiative launched.

    We are collecting information to help us understand how and why items are left behind. Learning from both near misses and actual events will help us better protect our patients. Information collection forms and instructions are available at www.chpso.org/rsi/index.php.

  • CHPSO Patient Safety News, Volume 3, Number 10.

    The tenth 2011 monthly edition of CHPSO Patient Safety News has been released.

  • Patient safety awareness campaign launched.

    California Hospital Association has launched a patient safety awareness campaign. The campaign features television ads, web-based video, patient safety issue briefs, and digital and social media activities.

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