About CHPSO

Mission

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

Vision

CHPSO will lead California to provide the nation’s safest and highest quality hospital care.

Our story

CHPSO is one of the largest PSOs in the nation, and through its alliances with other PSOs has access to the experience of over 700 hospitals.

CHPSO provides member hospitals with a new federal, state, tribal and local legal privilege for work on patient safety and quality of care that protects communications:

Between a hospital and its consultants
Among CHPSO participant hospitals
Within a hospital system, even if not all its hospitals are members (but only for information originating from a member hospital)
Between a hospital and CHPSO
Within the hospital itself to anyone on the workforce in any communication channel desired — no longer is the hospital bound by the constraints of peer review protection or attorney-client privilege
To the hospital’s board of directors and the system’s board of directors

CHPSO membership enables hospitals to comply with the new health care reform PSO provisions:

Hospitals over 50 beds cannot contract with health plans in state insurance exchanges unless the hospital is working with a PSO (1/1/2015 compliance deadline)
HHS will develop a program for high readmission rate hospitals that includes working with a PSO (program starts 3/23/2012)

CHPSO accelerates hospitals’ work towards eliminating preventable harm:

Events, near misses, and dangerous conditions can be confidentially reported to CHPSO, which will identify common contributing factors and disseminate to hospitals lessons learned from their and others’ experience
Administrative penalties can be confidentially analyzed and information provided to hospitals to help avoid future penalties

CHPSO helps hospitals work effectively in new organizational arrangements:

Coordinated care, such as ACOs, will come through assemblages of independent organizations. Joint membership in CHPSO allows significant sharing of quality and patient safety information within the new composite entity with preservation of confidentiality and privilege.

CHPSO acts as a statewide source of patient safety information for all California Hospital Association (CHA) members.

CHPSO is a regionally-oriented, rather than national, PSO. This enhances hospitals’ ability to directly communicate with their local peers.

CHPSO is one of the first PSOs in the nation, and is seen by AHRQ as a source of expertise for other PSOs.

Management

Executive Director: Rory Jaffe, MD MBA.

Doctor Jaffe has extensive experience in both clinical care and health system leadership. Prior to becoming Executive Director of CHPSO, he was Executive Director of Medical Services for the University of California system. In this role, he served as the senior physician in the system, which included oversight of quality of care at the five academic health systems and the ten student health centers. He also has served on a number of Federal and State advisory committees, and is currently the co-chair of the California Privacy and Security Advisory Board.

CHPSO Board of Directors

The CHPSO Board is comprised of prominent hospital industry and patient safety leaders. This Board is an actively engaged and enthusiastic group who share the CHPSO mission and vision.

Directors

James D. Barber, President/CEO, Hospital Association of Southern California, Los Angeles

Robin B. Brown, Jr., CEO, Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla

Warren Browner, M.D., CEO, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco

C. Duane Dauner, President/CEO, California Hospital Association, Sacramento

Steven A. Escoboza, President/CEO, Hospital Association of San Diego & Imperial Counties, San Diego

Michael Hunn, Senior Vice President and Chief Executive, Providence Health & Services, California Region, Torrance

Kenneth Kizer, M.D., Director, Institute for Population Health Improvement, University of California Davis Health System, Sacramento

Mark R. Laret, CEO, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco

Helen Macfie, PharmD, Senior Vice President, Performance Improvement, MemorialCare Medical Centers, Huntington Beach

Stephen Mayfield, Vice President, Performance Improvement, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach

Steven J. Packer, M.D., President/CEO, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey

Nancy Pratt, R.N., Senior Vice President, Clinical Effectiveness, Sharp HealthCare, San Diego

Richard L. Rawson, Corporate Vice President, Adventist Health Central Valley Network, Hanford

Roger E. Seaver, President/CEO, Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, Valencia

Arthur A. Sponseller, President/CEO, Hospital Council of Northern and Central California, Sacramento

Ronald C. Werft, President/CEO, Cottage Health System, Santa Barbara

Affiliated Organizations

The California Hospital Association, Hospital Council of Northern and Central California, Hospital Association of Southern California, and Hospital Association of San Diego and Imperial Counties are CHPSO’s partners.

CHPSO is a charter member of NAPSO™, a nationwide alliance of PSOs. Together we have over 750 participating health care facilities and are growing daily. Participation in the shared experience of this group can dramatically enhance our ability to understand and respond to patient safety challenges.

CHPSO has partnered with QA to QI consulting for peer review process benchmarking. CHPSO members can submit peer review process measures as Patient Safety Work Product to QA to QI Consulting for analysis and feedback at no charge.

CHPSO is a contributing organization to the Global Patient Safety Alerts system.

Help us improve our service

This web site is intended to be a useful resource for patient safety improvement. You can help us improve our service by answering a brief web survey at https://www.chpso.org/ls/index.php?sid=69327&lang=en.

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