CHA is committed to helping hospitals improve quality, reduce medical errors and adverse events, and maximize patient safety.

CHA’s vision is an “optimally healthy society.” CHA’s goal is for “every Californian to have equitable access to affordable, high-quality, medically necessary health care.”

Frequent studies in recent years have argued that health care errors are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. A number of organizations, such as the Institute of Medicine (IOM), recommend that health care errors and adverse events be reported in a systemic manner.

This increasing attention on the quality of patient care in hospitals has renewed CHA’s commitment to assist with improving the quality of patient care in every California hospital. In 2006, the CHA Board of Trustees endorsed the CHA Quality and Patient Safety Plan of 2006 (see attached document).