About Us
A pioneering and valuable initiative has been established in Kentucky
that will improve the quality and safety of health care services
delivered to all Kentuckians throughout the state. The Kentucky Hospital
Association (KHA) has created a new organization, The Kentucky Institute
for Patient Safety and Quality (KIPSQ), which has been certified by the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as a Patient Safety
Organization (PSO).
The KIPSQ collects patient safety work product that is voluntarily
submitted by healthcare providers for inclusion in our database. KIPSQ
avails each entity to its own data and allows the entity to expand on
its collected work product in a dynamic web-based computer system. This
enables the entity to analyze its own data.
On a quarterly basis, KIPSQ analyzes an aggregate of the data
submitted by all entities who contract with KIPSQ and disseminates the
results to its client providers in a nonidentifiable way. Additionally,
according to The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005, The
Department of Health and Human Services, through the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (“AHRQ”), will accumulate all patient
safety data and analyze it on a national level.
The data and analysis takes into account human contributing factors
of communication, training, fatigue, as well as accounting for
environment, equipment, rules, policies, procedures, and barriers, among
other factors. KIPSQ focuses on the processes involved, rather than
people involved. All error reports, analysis, and other information
submitted and generated to KIPSQ is strongly privileged with a new
federal protection.
Our goal is for every provider in Kentucky to join KIPSQ in order to
preserve the privilege of conducting self-improvement and network with
other facilities to improve the quality of health care.
KIPSQ Board of Directors 2012-2013
Donnie Fields, Chair, Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center,
Hazard
Ward Begley, Owensboro Medical Health System, Owensboro
Ruth Carrico, University of Louisville, School of Public
Health, Louisville
Stephen A. Estes, Rockcastle Regional Hospital, Mt. Vernon
Joseph Koch, Bourbon Community Hospital, Paris
Janet Norton, Baptist Health, Louisville
Sheila Schuster, Ph.D., Mental Health & Healthcare Advocacy,
Louisville
Connie Smith, Commonwealth Health Corporation, Bowling Green
Kim Williams, M.D., St. Claire Regional Medical Center
Stephanie Mayfield, M.D., Kentucky Department for Public Health,
Frankfort
Nancy Galvagni, KHA, Louisville, ex officio
Brian Brezosky, KHA/Solutions Group, Louisville, ex officio
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