About Quality
The mission of California hospitals is to deliver safe, quality care that is accessible to all. Hospitals participate in many activities to improve the quality and safety of the care they provide. California hospitals have a trusted partner in the Hospital Quality Institute, which helps them reduce errors and maximize patient safety. One of the ways in which HQI does this is by being a source of performance data and analytics. The data help focus improvement opportunities and scale best practices.
Upcoming Webinar Explains HQI Solution to Hospital Equity Reporting Challenges
What’s happening: The Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) is offering a service that provides 95% of the information hospitals are required to report by Sept. 30 under Assembly Bill 1204. HQI is hosting a webinar on April 10 addressing the challenges hospitals encounter in equity reporting and how its Hospital Quality Improvement Platform (HQIP) can simplify this process.
What else to know: The webinar will share practical strategies and tools to assist hospitals in meeting the mandatory health equity reporting requirements. This is the third in a four-part series; more information can be found on HQI’s website.
HCAI Seeks Feedback on AB 1204 Technical Assistance by March 31
What’s happening: The Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) recently released a survey to the hospital field to ascertain hospitals’ needs in complying with Assembly Bill (AB) 1204 (2021), which requires that they submit annual health equity data reports. The first report is due Sept. 30.
What else to know: The survey will help HCAI identify areas where additional technical assistance will be needed. Responses to the survey are due by March 31.
2025 Emergency Services Forum Returns to Newport Beach
What’s happening: In just over six weeks, the Emergency Services Forum returns to Newport Beach, where emergency services professionals will gather for a day of learning, discussion, and networking.
What else to know: The forum, held May 5 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., is open for registration. The deadline for booking at the discounted hotel room rate is April 14.
Patient Safety Awareness Week: Renewing Commitment to Quality Care
What’s happening: This year’s National Patient Safety Awareness Week, which runs from March 9-15, is themed “Moving the Needle,” focusing on the importance of taking action to enhance safety for both patients and the teams that care for them.
What else to know: National Patient Safety Awareness Week is an opportunity for hospitals and health systems to renew their commitment to providing the highest quality and safest patient care.
March 12 Webinar Will Detail New HQI Program to Support Mandatory Health Equity Reporting
What’s happening: The Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) has released a new reporting service, as part of its Hospital Quality Improvement Platform (HQIP), that includes 95% of the information hospitals are required to report by Sept. 30.
What else to know: More information about the requirements — created under Assembly Bill 1204 (Statutes of 2021) — and HQI’s solution will be shared at a webinar on March 12. This webinar is the first of a four-part series; more information can be found on HQI’s website.
2025 Behavioral Health Care Symposium
Registration opens June 3, 2025. The 2025 Behavioral Health Care Symposium returns to Sacramento! Join us at the Sawyer Kimpton in Sacramento on December 8-9 for rich conversations on behavioral health care in California from speakers you want to hear. If you thought the 2024 Symposium in Long Beach was good – just wait ’til […]
2025 Disaster Planning Conference
The 2025 Disaster Planning Conference will be in Sacramento this year. It’s sure to be as spectacular as ever.
CMS Announces Quality Reporting Exceptions for Hospitals Impacted by Los Angeles Fires
What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is granting exceptions for certain measures in Medicare quality reporting and value-based programs to hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, and post-acute providers in designated areas affected by the California Wildfires and Straight-line Winds public health emergency in Los Angeles.
What else to know: If providers voluntarily report data where exceptions are allowed, CMS notes that the data will be used for public reporting and applying scoring methodologies under value-based programs.
2025 Emergency Services Forum
Join us for the 2025 Emergency Services Forum, returning to beautiful Newport Beach! This conference is dedicated to the uniqueness of hospital ED management and its intersection with emergency services and the community. We’re finalizing an exceptional lineup of speakers and engaging topics. The 2024 Emergency Services Forum sold out – this is an event you and your colleagues don’t want to miss!
CMS Posts List of Measures Under Consideration for Federal Quality Programs
What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted its annual list of measures under consideration (MUC) for use in quality reporting and payment programs. The list includes boarding measures on patient safety and emergency departments for hospitals.
What else to know: As required by law, the MUC list will be reviewed by the Partnership for Quality Measurement’s (PQM) Pre-Rulemaking Measure Review (PRMR) committees, who will provide CMS with recommendations on the measures’ appropriateness for federal quality programs by Feb. 1, 2025. Written public comments can be provided to the PRMR by Dec. 30, and the public can register for listening sessions and committee meetings on the PQM website.