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State patient-safety commission cites pressure injuries and falls as leading reportable events
Summary
The New Hampshire Health Care Quality and Patient Safety Commission presented its 2024 annual report to the oversight committee, reporting a modest statewide decline in total adverse events but continued prominence of hospital-acquired pressure injuries, patient falls and surgical events and recommending standardized analysis and benchmarking.
Representatives of the New Hampshire Health Care Quality and Patient Safety Commission briefed the Health and Human Services Oversight Committee on Sept. 26 and presented the commission's 2024 annual report and related adverse-event data collected by DHHS.
Chris Herring, vice president for quality improvement at the Foundation for Healthy Communities and chair of the commission, and Hannah Sharp, patient safety officer at Elliot Health System and commission chair, described the commission's voluntary membership (26 acute care hospitals, specialty hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers) and its work to investigate serious reportable events and share best…
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