The Creighton Health Services Program (CHRP) has been recognized as a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Linda Scheirton, PhD, Kimberly Galt, PharmD, and Mavis Hall and were all instrumental in this process which is now activated.
The mission of the CHRP Patient Safety Organization (PSO) is to assist patients, health care practitioners, and provider organizations minimize risk and avoidable harm through improvement of health service utilization and practices. In order to fulfill our mission, the CHRP PSO will provide a variety of avenues in which to disseminate patient safety information and report safety errors.
In accordance with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Patient Safety and Quality Act of 2005, the CRHP PSO will provide a confidential vehicle for health care practitioners and institutional providers to participate in quality review activities through the routine reporting of PSO data on individual patient safety events which impacted or had the potential to impact patients adversely. The CHRP PSO will also provide a portal for other groups to voluntarily transmit patient safety data directly to the government.
The CHRP PSO has established a panel of patient safety experts (made up of Creighton University faculty members from the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, School of Nursing, and the School of Medicine) to review adverse event reports and recommend safety improvement actions within an accelerated response system. This review panel will serve as a vehicle through which patient safety information and recommendations for improvement in safety processes can be disseminated quickly and efficiently to all stakeholders.
Please visit the website http://chrp.creighton.edu/patientsafetyorganization.asp for more information on the PSO.