Welcome to the CQPS Newsroom, designed to meet the immediate needs of journalists and others who are interested in Chicago quality and patient safety information.

• Press Release: July 22, 2009 – The Coalition for Quality and Patient Safety of Chicagoland (CQPS), announced today that Monica C. Berry, BSN, JD has accepted the position of Chief Operating Officer. Berry joins a CQPS team focused on advancing safe, high quality care that includes a federally-certified Patient Safety Organization (PSO), one of the first in the nation.
  
• Press Release: May 14, 2009 – The Coalition for Quality and Patient Safety of Chicagoland (CQPS), announced today it has reached an agreement with ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization (PSO) to implement a Chicago-based PSO dedicated to improving safety and quality of care in the Chicago metro region.

• April 14, 2009 - CQPS Announcements: Establishment of CQPS, listing of CQPS Patient Safety Organization, CEO appointed, Summit planned
  
  
• March 3, 2006 - 2006 CPSF Annual Scientific Meeting: "Culture of Safety: A System Strategy to Reduce Medical Errors and Improve Patient Safety"
  
  
• The Chicago Patient Safety Forum and the Illinois Foundation for Quality Health Care Partner to Save 100,000 Lives - Regional meetings to be held for participating hospitals throughout the state
  
  
• Chicago Patient Safety Forum named lead partner in the Chicago area for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) 100,000 Lives Campaign
  
  
• Chicago Patient Safety Forum Strongly Supports S.544 "The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005"
  
  
• 2005 CPSF Annual Meeting March 10, 2005
  

Several of our members are available to speak on various quality and patient safety issues:

Ambulatory Care
Anesthesiology
Drug Name Confusion
Electronic Medical Records, CPOE
Geriatrics
Geropharmacology
Illinois Medical Studies Act
Infection Prevention
Mandatory Reporting vs. Voluntary Reporting
Medication Safety
Nursing
Patient Safety
Patient Safety in Ambulatory and Primary Care
Patient Safety Simulator
Pediatric Patient Safety
Safe Clinical Practices

Inquiries can be directed to CQPS at 312-906-6196 or cqps@iomc.org

• On November 21, 2008 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule for Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs).

  The rule becomes effective on Jan. 19, 2009. It provides final requirements and procedures for PSOs, new entities with which clinicians and health care providers can work to collect, aggregate and analyze data—within a legally secure environment of privilege and confidentiality protections—to identify and reduce patient care risks and hazards. Read more...

• Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich signs Executive Order creating new Division of Patient Safety within the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Read more...
  
• Federal Patient Safety Legislation S-544: "Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005." Read more...
  
• On May 31, in a surprise action, our state legislature slipped in a provision to the Illinois SB157, whose purpose was to establish a mandatory hospital reporting system for major adverse events.
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• SORRY WORKS! PILOT PROGRAM PASSES ILLLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY Illinois to become first state to try Sorry Works! pilot program as fix to med-mal crisis. Read more...
  

• CPSF Executive Director Leonard Lamkin interviewed by ABC News for University of Chicago insulin errors (July 22, 2007)
  
• Letter to the editor: Chicago Tribune - "Pediatric Guidelines", December 14, 2006
  
• CPSF named as Greater Chicago Node for IHI 100,000 Lives Campaign. Read more...
  
• Daily Chronicle: "Kish Hospital participates in forum on patient safety," October 21, 2005
  
• Nursing Spectrum, Greater Chicago Edition: "100,000 Lives Campaign Gains Momentum," October 10, 2005
  
• Chicago Tribune: "Hospitals set goal: Save 100,000 lives," October 5, 2005
  
• Nursing Spectrum, Greater Chicago Edition: "Patient Safety Comes First for Forum," August 1, 2005
  
• CPSF Executive Director Leonard Lamkin gives favorable review to patient safety film "Things you should know before entering the hospital"
  
• Chicago Tribune Featured Letter to the Editor, "Keeping Illinois hospitals safer", June 8, 2005