Quality Corner
October Highlights of Performance Improvement at SHC
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Committee [QIPSC],
chaired by Joseph Hopkins, associate chief of staff
- MD Quality Improvement Education Modules
- Introduced nearly two years ago and required of all new medical staff and at time of every two-year reappointment
- Current Module I revised and Module II created
- New user-friendly format
- Accessible from home computers
- Start and resume function allows users to return to where they have left off in program
- Periodic updates can be added
- Short Test supported at end
- Both Module I and II required of all new SHC and/or LPCH appointees
- Module II only required for reappointments
- Contents of Modules
- Module I
- Quality assurance and quality improvement basics and concepts
- Ties to professional ethics resources
- Changing perspectives in Medicine
- Confidentiality of QA/QI information
- Module II - applicable to both
SHC and LPCH
- Tools and methods of FOCUS PDCA, FACTS, RCA, FMEA
- NPSG
- Incident reports (PSN and Quantos)
- Core Measures
- Rapid Response Teams (see related story)
- Board strategic goals in quality and safety
- The physician’s role
- Module I
