1. Patient Safety: Setting Aside Competition to Make Care Safer for Patients

2. Hospital Engagement Network
19 hospitals signed letters of commitment

3. Hospital Engagement Network
6 hospitals have submitted data on 70% or greater of the measures.

4. Hospital Engagement Network What do we need to be doing?
Track and enter data on hospital acquired conditions and readmissions.
Identify areas of opportunity for improvement at your facility.
Tell us what you are working on and we will help you get resources through subject matter experts on-line, by webinar, or in person.
Share what is working with others in Alaska.
Celebrate success and learn from challenges.

5. Reducing Harm Across the Board
Topic
Value Based Purchasing
Adverse drug events (ADE): opioid safety, anticoagulation safety, and glycemic management
Central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSI), in all hospital settings
CMS
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), in all hospital settings
Clostridium difficile (C. diff) bacterial infection, including Antibiotic Stewardship
Injury from falls and immobility

6. Reducing Harm (continued)
Topic
VBP
Pressure ulcers
CMS
Sepsis and Septic Shock
Surgical Site Infections (SSI), hip, knee, cardiac, colon, hysterectomy
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), including, at a minimum, all surgical settings
Ventilator-Associated Events (VAE), to include Infection-related Ventilator-Associated Complication (IVAC) and Ventilator-Associated Condition (VAC)
Readmissions

8. Improvement Calculator
This revised version (v6.1, May 2016) of the Improvement Calculator enables hospitals to import data from the Comprehensive Data System to track a "total harm" rate in pursuit of safety across the board.
Download the instructions to additional details on how to use this tool. 
Click here to download the tool.

9. Eliminating Harm Checklists Reduce All-Cause, Preventable Harm
Top 10 Checklists for each area of preventable harm
Use checklists to review current or initiate new interventions.
Access the full checklist here.
How to Use these Checklists • Share the checklists with your leadership and quality improvement teams • Identify the most relevant checklists that align with organizational priorities and areas identified that are in the most need of harm reduction • Share selected checklists and change packages with key staff • Review strategies and action items at meetings • Adopt the most relevant strategies to be rapidly implemented in your organization • Share experiences, challenges and successes with HEN colleagues

10. Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN)
HEN 3.0
Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN)
The new Partnership for Patients contract scheduled to start end of September.
Two years with potential additional year option.
Goal is to engage 3,700 hospitals through a network of contractors.

11. Hospital Improvement Innovation Network
Valuable to clinical staff.
Aligns with goals of CMS in Value Based Purchasing.
Helps members achieve the next level of safety.
Learn across state lines.
HEN 3.0

12. Washington State Hospital Association
Patient Safety
Member Driven
Improve Quality
Improve Community Health
Lower Cost

13. Foundation of Engaged Leadership, Patients and Equity in Outcomes
Measures for 7 by 17
Infections
Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections
Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections
Surgical Site Infections
Sepsis
C. Diff - Antimicrobial Stewardship
Population Health
Immunizations
Diabetes
1st Trimester
Early Intervention Mental Health
Safe Deliveries Roadmap
Early Elective Deliveries
Episiotomy
Inductions
Hemorrhage/
Preeclampsia
General Care
Undue Exposure to Radiation
Readmissions
Nursing and Staff Care
Falls
Pressure Ulcers
Venous Thromboembolism
Worker Safety
Medications
Adverse Drug Events
The goal is that we should learn from the best. 7 by 17 is to have at least seven of our measures better then the national best. Benchmark and learn from them. Cheer if we both get better.
Foundation of Engaged Leadership, Patients and Equity in Outcomes

14. 42,504 fewer patients harmed and
Washington State Patient Safety – Partnership for Patients
42,504 fewer patients harmed and
$365 million savings through our collaboration in Patient Safety!
Better Care in Every Community!
Safer Care for Every Mother and Baby!
Together as the Washington State Hospital Association, we have set competition aside to achieve what we could not have done individually.
Key learnings:
Zero is obtainable.
Variation exists…Working with your CEO and physicians you can overcome.
Transparency drives change. (show document)
Expect sharing.
Set high goals and support achieving.
Data since 2010

15. Expectations Engagement by all CEOs and leadership teams.
Submit and use data to improve care.
Engage in transparency.
Share best practices.
Collaborate.
ASHNHA Board: Endorse Alaska’s continued dedication to the Partnership for Patients Program and strongly encourage all Alaska hospitals and health systems to participate with ASHNHA in Partnership for Patients HIIN through WSHA.