WSHA's Clinical Excellence team provides expertise to hospitals participating in WSHA-led quality and patient safety improvement programs.

As a trusted leader in health care quality, we convene hospitals in learning collaboratives and rapid cycle improvement workshops. Our unique position as a non-regulatory organization with a system-level view of hospital performance allows us to transparently work with hospitals to identify and address root causes of clinical challenges.

The WSHA Clinical Excellence Committee and WSHA Board of Directors re-evaluate our priorities each year to ensure we are working on the most impactful topics. The Clinical Excellence Team also actively participates in state-level emerging health care issues and partners with WSHA’s Government Affairs team to translate legislation into hospital implementation.

WSHA’s current initiatives are:

• Behavioral Health
• Diagnostic Excellence
• Fall with Injury Prevention
• Health Equity
• Hospital Staffing
• Medicaid Quality Incentive
• Northwest Safety and Quality Patient Safety Organization
• Opioid Stewardship
• Readmissions
• Rural Quality Improvement
• Safe Deliveries Roadmap
• Sepsis Management
• Workplace Violence Prevention

WSHA hospital members can login to see initiatives and resources.