For Healthcare Facilities
Share your patient safety learning
The Patient Safety Reporting Program (PSRP) helps us tap into your organization’s expertise and lessons learned from adverse events. Contributing to patient safety work can help other facilities improve… making care safer for all Oregonians.
At the heart of this program is the idea that we don’t compete on safety.
There are two ways to participate in PSRP:
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Adverse Event Reporting
Share what you’ve learned from adverse events. Every adverse event is an opportunity for learning. And when you report through PSRP, you help ensure learning doesn’t get stuck within individual healthcare organizations.
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Patient Safety Activities
You can also get involved through patient safety activities. As a supplement to reporting, we’ll sometimes offer other ways to support patient safety work. Learn more about our last activity, the Patient Safety Survey.
How PSRP Works:
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Contribute Information
Healthcare facilities either contribute information about adverse events and their strategies for preventing future events or participate in a Patient Safety Activity.
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Analyze
We analyze what you contribute to identify themes and related best practices that support patient safety improvement.
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Amplify
Then we amplify the lessons learned to support healthcare facilities statewide in improving patient safety.
Get Started with Adverse Event Reporting
Help us tap into your organization’s expertise and lessons learned following an adverse event. Participating in the reporting program ensures learning doesn’t get stuck within individual healthcare organizations.
Our ask of you: Contribute at least one adverse event or near miss report each quarter (every three months), which adds to our growing database of learning and improvement strategies.
The success of this program depends on contributions from facilities like yours! Sharing what you’ve learned can help other facilities improve… making care safer for all Oregonians.
What Are the Benefits of PSRP?
“It has become clear that reducing preventable harm is a complex endeavor that requires a concerted, persistent, coordinated effort by all stakeholders.”
PSRP focuses on building greater trust in the healthcare system and strengthening its culture of patient safety.
Healthcare facilities gain new sources of expertise in their ongoing efforts to design safer systems of care.
All Oregonians benefit from the more robust strategies for preventing patient harm that emerge from the program.
What healthcare facilities contribute is always voluntary and confidential under state law, creating a safe environment where learning and improvement can thrive.
PSRP Frequently Asked Questions
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Eligible facilities include ambulatory surgery centers, birthing centers, community pharmacies, hospitals, nursing facilities, and renal dialysis centers that are licensed in the state.
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You can report any adverse event, which is an objective, definable, and unanticipated negative consequence of patient care that is usually preventable and results in (or presents a significant risk of) physical injury to the patient. This may even include events that don’t reach the patient. Please note that we cannot accept potentially criminal events.
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Check out the full list of healthcare facilities that have contributed to patient safety work in Oregon throughout the last 12 months.
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The Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC) is considered a “public health authority” under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. Therefore, a HIPAA Covered Entity is permitted to disclose protected health information (PHI) to us without either a Business Associate agreement or an authorization.
Learn more about OPSC’s HIPAA exemption: Memorandum: HIPAA Exemption for OPSC and its PSRP Activities, Oregon Department of Justice
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PSRP aligns with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) patient safety standards by providing an evidence-based structure to improve healthcare quality through the collection, management, and analysis of patient safety events.
Oregon hospitals with over 50 beds can certify their participation in PSRP to comply with the ACA patient safety standards, as described in 45 CFR §156.1110. Compliance is needed to contract with qualified health plan (QHP) issuers for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2017.
If your hospital is using PSRP in accordance with the reasonable exception provision of the patient safety standards, you can use the Hospital Certification Form to document your organization’s compliance.
Reasonable exception provision
A QHP issuer that contracts with a hospital with greater than 50 beds must verify that the hospital:
Implements an evidence-based initiative, to improve health care quality through the collection, management and analysis of patient safety events that reduces all cause preventable harm, prevents hospital readmission, or improves care coordination.
45 CFR § 156.1110(a)(2)(ii)
Documenting your compliance
The QHPs with which you contract are required to collect documentation that demonstrates your hospital’s compliance with the patient safety standards. To document your hospital’s compliance using PSRP:
Download and save a copy of the Hospital Certification Form—Compliance with Patient Safety Standards for Qualified Health Plans
Complete the form
Keep the form on file and provide a copy of the form to your QHPs*
*Your QHPs may require that your hospital submit compliance documentation during your regular insurance contract cycle. Additionally, because the Exchange may request your hospital’s documentation from your QHP at any time, we encourage you to keep your documentation on file.
Did you know?
If you took the Patient Safety Survey, you can now see your results compared to the aggregate results of other facilities in Oregon!
Curious what the Patient Safety Survey was all about?
