Purpose
To promote evidence-based best practices to enhance patient safety, improve care, reduce risk and prevent errors through creating a blame-free system and neutral non-punitive forum for sharing, studying, and learning from medical variances, including near misses.

• Objectives
• Guiding Principles
• Program Scope
  

Sub-Committees and Task Forces

• Peer Review Panel is composed of MDs, nurses, pharmacists, risk managers, QI/PI staff. The panel will request, receive and maintain peer review data on behalf of A&HS. The panel is responsible for reviewing events, analyzing de-identified data, and identifying trends for education or medical alerts as shared with A&HS by participating healthcare organizations. To direct their work, the Peer Review Panel will also maintain regularly reviewed and updated guidelines.
• Best Practices Sub-Committee
• Best Practice Clinical Process Team(s)
• Safe Medication Use Sub-Committee
• Patient Safety Issues - Medical Events Sub-Committee (PSI-ME)
• Reportable Events Task Force

A&HS Committee Chairman: Edward J. Bonn, CHE Prresident/CEO, Southern Regional Health System

• Upcoming Meeting - None at this time
  • You will need a meeting password to access the materials. Please contact Kathy McGowan or Pam Jackson.

For more information on the Accountability and Health Safety Committee please email us at: pha@gha.org