Scroll down to read these articles in this Issue: 21st Annual Conference Call for Speakers The Spring 2024 Speak-UP! Award Period is Currently Open for Nominations CRP Certification is Back - Pulse CPSEA’s Family-Centered Patient Advocacy Course
Bree Report Spotlight on Diabetes Care Webinar
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21st Annual Conference Call for Speakers VIRTUAL CONFERENCE DATES: OCTOBER 15th – 16th, 2024 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Pacific Time
SPEAKER Application DEADLINE: June 30, 2024
We are pleased to invite interested speakers to submit proposals for presentations at our 21st annual patient safety conference.
We encourage proposals from across the care spectrum and strongly encourage patients and family members to submit proposals about their experiences. This year’s conference continues our regional collaboration between Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.
Past attendees have requested presentations describing practices, ideas and activities they can apply at their jobs. Example topics include, but are not limited to: - Patient and Family Engagement: Novel and successful ways to partner with patients, families and care partners in all aspects of care design, delivery, and operations.
- Safety Within Systems: How should safety and quality be structured within organizations to survive organizational factors like leadership change, staff turnover, mergers and acquisitions, and external disturbances from societal events and climate change?
- Innovative and Equitable Patient Safety Practices:
New methods, approaches and ideas to improve patient safety and equitable care with regards to race, ethnicity, and social determinants.
- Technology: Applications of artificial intelligence. What is its impact on safety?
- Collaboration on a Community Level:
Collaborating with communities and each other to improve patient safety beyond the four walls of our healthcare institutions.
PRESENTATION INFORMATION
General Session Speakers will present virtual 60 minute general sessions with submitted Q&A, time permitting. Breakout Speakers will host virtual 60 minute sessions with audience engagement. APPLICATION PROCESS - Please submit an application HERE
to present. Applications are available on the conference website.
- SPEAKER APPLICATION DEADLINE: June 30, 2024
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Conference committee reviews applications and if accepted, speakers will sign and return a Letter of Agreement by August 16 which describes the details of the presentation.
- Presentations may be accepted before the June 30 deadline.
- The conference registration fee will be waived, and an honorarium may be requested.
WHO ATTENDS 500-600 attendees represent healthcare stakeholders including: -
Patient safety practitioners, risk managers, quality leaders, and healthcare executives.
- Clinical program leaders and frontline clinicians from across the spectrum of care.
- Claims representatives and insurance professionals.
- Patient advocates and patient experience officers, patient and family advisory council members.
- Graduate and undergraduate health professions students.
- Interested patients, family members of patients, and community members.
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The Spring 2024 Speak-UP! Award Period is Currently Open for Nominations |
The next round for the WPSC Speak-Up! Award is taking nominations for the Spring 2024 award. The nomination deadline is May 3rd. Nominations may be made on the Speak-UP! Award page.
This is a great way to recognize staff and Washington healthcare organizations for the fantastic work they are doing. It is open to clinical and non-clinical employees/team members from all Washington healthcare organizations, such as hospitals, pharmacies, long term care (e.g., skilled nursing facilities & assisted living facilities), clinics and physician offices to name some examples. There are three 2024 Awards. Nomination due dates are: – May 3, 2024 – August 30, 2024 – December 27, 2024 For more information go to the Speak-Up! Award website or contact Steve Levy, Executive Director, WPSC at
slevy@qualityhealth.org. |
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| CRP Certification is Back! |
After a multi-year hiatus, FHCQ’s Communication and Resolution Program (CRP) Certification is back and ready to support Washington healthcare organizations, providers, and patients who have experienced an adverse medical event. CRP is an important tool that provides a framework of essential commitments, elements, and steps to guide the response to patients who have been harmed by their healthcare, while also addressing the quality and safety gaps responsible for the event. FHCQ supports this work through two services:
CRP Screening and CRP Certification
. For these services, FHCQ gathers a diverse group of healthcare stakeholders including patient advocates, physicians, risk managers, attorneys, and more to create the CRP review panel. This panel is tasked with providing feedback to all submitted cases, helping organizations fulfill all steps of the CRP process, and ensuring that the organization took the right steps to improve patient safety and prevent the event from reoccurring. These two services are free
and independent from one another. Although these services can provide support in different and beneficial ways, it is not required for organizations to go through both processes. What is CRP Screening? CRP Screening is an informal process and is meant for individuals who would like support during a current CRP response or advice on how a previous adverse event could have been better aligned with CRP principles. The purpose of CRP Screening is to provide organizations/providers with real-time feedback
of their CRP response, how to proceed if challenges arose during the CRP process, help ensure all elements of CRP are present in the response, and to provide advice
on how previous adverse events could have incorporated (or better incorporated) CRP principles. One of the most valuable aspect of CRP Screening and Certification is the feedback applicants receive from the review panel. CRP Screening provides more chances for organizations/providers to talk through the challenges they are experiencing and receive support in troubleshooting the complexities of the CRP process with a group of non-judgmental peers. What is CRP Certification?
CRP Certification is a formal process and is meant to affirm if the organization/provider incorporated all of the core elements of CRP in their response to the adverse event. With CRP Certification, we partner with the Washington Medical Commission where adverse events that are certified by the CRP review panel may be included in the Commission’s own investigations. The purpose of CRP Certification is to affirm to regulators
that patient safety was met and improvements have been implemented to ensure the adverse event will not reoccur. Another crucial aspect of CRP Certification is sharing the lessons learned from each submitted application, in which FHCQ will de-identify all cases and widely share the learnings to ensure the greater healthcare community can learn from the event as well. Want to learn more about CRP, CRP Screening, or CRP Certification? Register for our upcoming webinar!
This webinar will cover FHCQ’s CRP services in more detail and you will have the opportunity to hear from one of our current CRP review panel members on their experience on the panel and submitting a case for review. When: March 7, 11:30AM-12:30PM If you have any questions, contact Felicidad Smith, Communication and Resolution Program Manager at fsmith@qualityhealth.org or visit www.qualityhealth.org/crp. |
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Pulse CPSEA’s Family-Centered Patient Advocacy Course |
Leading patient safety group offers intensive 2-day course
Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy is proud to announce that it will hold a 2-
day intensive training course, “Family-Centered Patient Advocacy” on March 14-15, 2024.
The course will be held in person in Plainview, Long Island, NY. All are welcome — from Board-
Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA), who will receive 14 CEs for attending, to individuals just
wanting to support their families in getting safer medical care. “Medical error is the third-highest cause of premature death in this country,” says Pulse
President Ilene Corina, BCPA, “but there are many things we can do to reduce the risks and get
better outcomes from our care. Those attending the course will learn how to do that.” Want to know more? Information and registration at
https://www.pulsecenterforpatientsafety.org/fcpatraining Media enquiries:
David Halperin: patientsafetynews@gmail.com
or Ilene Corina: info@pulsecpsea.org or (516) 579-4711 |
| One of many groups of former FCPA training graduates |
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| Bree Report Spotlight on Diabetes Care Webinar |
You are invited to join us on Tuesday, February 20th 12-1 PM PT as we celebrate the development of one of our newest reports on Diabetes Care! Read the full report HERE.
Our dedicated workgroup members will speak about the opportunity to strengthen care for people with diabetes and who are at risk for developing diabetes, population health management strategies, and how members of our health ecosystem, like clinicians and plans, can improve the quality of clinical care. The event will be recorded. The recording will be sent out to those who register for the event and later be posted onto the Bree Collaborative web page. Cost to attend: Free
Scheduled Speakers: - Dr. Norifumi (Norris) Kamo, MD [Workgroup Chair]- Section Head, Adult Primary Care at Virginia Mason
- Nicole Treanor, MS, RD, CD, CDCES-Diabetes Care and Education Specialist at Virginia Mason
- Dr. LuAnn Chen, MD, MHA- Senior Medical Director at CHPW
- Susan Buell-Health and Wellness Director, YMCA of Tacoma and Pierce County
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Glenn Puckett, MPA-Executive Director, Health Transformation at Washington Dental Services
__________________________________________ Other Upcoming events: - Bree Report Spotlight Webinar on Complex Discharge
When: Thursday, February 29th 12-1 PM PT
Cost to Attend: Free
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Join the Foundation for Health Care Quality in collaboration with Washington Health Alliance and Comagine Health to kick off the first webinar of a three-part series on Catalyst for change, focused on health equity in a value-based era! In this webinar, we will hear from representatives of different stakeholder groups within our health ecosystem discuss how they are promoting quality that centers equity in the forefront of their care. - Catalyst for Change Webinar Series: Centering Health Equity in Value-based Care
When: Wednesday, March 6th 12-1:30 PM PT
Cost to Attend: Free CLICK HERE TO REGISTER |
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