Patient Safety Alliance

An exciting alliance of Oregon hospital leadership and staff

2008 Spring meeting: Achieving Safety and Excellence in the Inpatient Setting

May 7, 2008, conference will share results from Surgical, Medical, and OB Collaboratives. Includes hospital quality award presentations.

Brochure with agenda and CME information (PDF)

Registration form (PDF)

IHI 5M Lives Network 2008 Spring meeting: Transforming Health Care in Oregon

May 8, 2008 conference agenda and registration information

Oregon IHI campaign information

Report on PSA collaborative results

PSA Year One Report, May 2007 (PDF)

Sponsoring partners

• Acumentra Health
• American College of Physicians, Oregon Chapter
• American College of Surgeons, Oregon Chapter
• Northwest Physicians Insurance Company
• Oregon Academy of Family Physicians
• Society of Hospital Medicine, Oregon Chapter

Initiatives

The Alliance focuses diverse resources on two high-powered initiatives to improve hospital care and promote patient safety:

• Medical Care Initiative
• Surgical Care Initiative

Goals of the initiatives

• Achieve major improvements in CMS/Joint Commission medical care and surgical care measures
• Develop a successful model for hospital-based process and quality improvement activities based on collaboration and mutual understanding of needs, goals, and barriers
• Develop physician champions’ leadership skills
• Develop a peer support network for physician champions

Underlying themes of the initiatives

• Facilitate real conversations about why current methods don’t work
• Stimulate real problem solving about how to overcome the barriers
• Promote culture changes that foster joint ownership of quality and system

Structure of the initiatives

Hospitals have been recruited selectively to participate in one or both of these initiatives based on interest, size, and potential to achieve rapid and significant results. The heart of the initiative is a series of leadership seminars to build strong physician-led multidisciplinary teams that actively engage senior administrators. Year 1 seminars include both initiatives.

Year 2 seminars focus only on the Surgical Care Initiative. Teams include at a minimum   

• A senior administrator—CEO, COO, or Senior Vice President
• Operations leader—a director with decision-making authority over resources
• Physician champions to lead teams for each initiative
• Quality/process improvement staff
• Clinical nurse as day-to-day leader