Health care reform and specific benchmarks in patient care provide incentives for hospitals to operate more efficiently and effectively. With educational, collaborative and performance measurement programs and services, HASC works to advance the adoption of proven strategies that enhance the quality and safety of care provided in Southern California’s hospitals.
SCPSF provides a forum for peer-to-peer learning, networking and sharing of best practices to improve patient safety and clinical outcomes in the following four areas:
In 2016, PSF partners Anthem Blue Cross, National Health Foundation, Hospital Association of Southern California, Hospital Council of Northern and Central California and Hospital Association of San Diego and Imperial Counties will continue to work together to offer PSF programming to hospitals across California.
SCPSF provides a forum for peer-to-peer learning, networking and sharing of best practices to improve patient safety and clinical outcomes in the following four areas:
In 2016, PSF partners Anthem Blue Cross, National Health Foundation, Hospital Association of Southern California, Hospital Council of Northern and Central California and Hospital Association of San Diego and Imperial Counties will continue to work together to offer PSF programming to hospitals across California.
Discuss barriers, strategies, and resources that facilitate progress towards eliminating early elective delivery and lowering C-Section rate, and managing post partum hemorrhage.
Primary Audience: Registered Nurses, Quality Managers, Control Staff, Nurse Executives, Operating Room Directors and Perinatal Unit Directors
2016 SCPSFC Perinatal Safety Webinar Schedule:
All Perinatal Safety webinars are from12:15PM to 1:15 PM [PDT]
Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety designed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Department of Defense (TeamSTEPPS®) teaches health care professionals how to integrate teamwork principles into daily practice throughout the organization. Create a culture of situational awareness, mutual support and a shared mental model for those who work not only in high-stress areas — such as surgical suites, critical care, labor and delivery, and the ED — but in areas throughout the hospital. These program attributes improve communication and shift the organization into a culture known for high reliability in quality and patient safety.
A New Approach to Error Prevention
Bring strength and vitality to your patient safety culture with a new approach to error prevention — TeamSTEPPS®.
TeamSTEPPS® teaches health care professionals how to integrate teamwork principles into daily practice throughout the organization. Create a culture of situational awareness, mutual support and a shared mental model for those who work not only in high-stress areas — such as surgical suites, critical care, labor and delivery, and the ED — but in areas throughout the hospital. These program attributes improve communication and shift the organization into a culture known for high reliability in quality and patient safety.
TeamSTEPPS® offers training in four core competency areas:
Team leadership — the ability to motivate, direct and coordinate team activities; assess performance; develop team knowledge and skills; and establish a positive team atmosphere.
Situation monitoring (or mutual performance monitoring) — the capacity to develop common understandings of the team environment and apply appropriate strategies to effectively monitor teammate performance.
Mutual support (or back-up behavior) — the ability to anticipate other team members’ needs and to shift workload among members to achieve balance.
Communication — the efficient exchange of information and consultation with other team members.
How Can TeamSTEPPS® Benefit My Hospital?
TeamSTEPPS® can help your hospital:
Prevent medical errors
Improve perinatal safety
Avoid surgical mishaps
Optimize communication
Build physician/staff relations
Enhance employee satisfaction
What We Offer
HASC offers consultative assistance to help your team get started with a train-the-trainer approach. You can select a one-day Essentials Course for key team members to learn which TeamSTEPPS® modules will best meet your facility’s needs, or opt for a full three-day engagement involving more members of the core team who will take you beyond the initial review of program tools into design and implementation of your TeamSTEPPS® intervention.
Here is what one hospital has to say about their TeamSTEPPS® engagement with HASC:
“Our three-day TeamSTEPPS® training with HASC has been rated as the best educational program experience by our entire team of attendees. Within six weeks of our training, we had implemented two TeamSTEPPS® tools in L&D & OR, had the full support of our Medical Executive Committee, one of whom volunteered to be the physician champion for this project, and we had a house-wide plan to implement one of the tools. The training provided by HASC is a great value, the benefits to patients served by our organization are priceless.”
Multiple state and national associations are working on this issue intensively and 2017 brings us several new resources. The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) has made a compendium of resources available here, for various targeted providers and provider organizations.
Please scroll down to find regional and other resources on the issue.
Quality & Patient Safety
Best practices through organizational learning
Health care reform and specific benchmarks in patient care provide incentives for hospitals to operate more efficiently and effectively. With educational, collaborative and performance measurement programs and services, HASC works to advance the adoption of proven strategies that enhance the quality and safety of care provided in Southern California’s hospitals.