CHA established the California Hospital Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO) to improve hospital patient safety and quality by providing leadership and serving as a means of intercommunication and cooperation between hospitals.

This corporation will collect and analyze health care and patient safety data; recommend measures or practices to eliminate or reduce medical errors; educate health care professionals; interact with hospitals and health care professionals; coordinate statewide and regional initiatives and projects; provide data and information to improve patient safety and reduce errors in hospitals; help create a “fair and just” culture of openness and commitment to quality and safety; support activities within the state; carry out functions for a patient safety organization that are authorized in federal or state law; and perform other activities that help improve patient safety and quality or reduce medical errors. 

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Pay for performance is an emerging movement — in which providers are rewarded for the quality of their health care services — among health plans and insurers (the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and others). Some programs are initially providing financial incentives to participate in quality reporting. However, the overall movement focuses on financially rewarding high quality patient care or financially penalizing poor quality of care. The CHA Board has adopted a partial payment or non-payment policy related to billing for preventable adverse events that are under the control of the hospital.