For patients taking prescription drugs to manage their chronic conditions, the lack of coordinated care across health care providers negatively impacts the safety and quality of care delivered. A result of this dynamic is that adverse drug events continue to be a leading cause of death and injury in the United States.
The Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative is committed to saving and enhancing thousands of lives a year by achieving optimal health outcomes and eliminating adverse drug events through increased clinical pharmacy services for the patients we serve. Now in its second year (PSPC 2.0), the Collaborative is continuing the rapid spread of leading practices that improve patient safety and health outcomes in a health home model. PSPC 2.0 is building on the lessons learned and successes of the first year and expanding the work to a greater national scale.
The Collaborative is ...
A breakthrough effort to improve the quality of health care across America by integrating evidence-based clinical pharmacy services into the care and management of patients with chronic diseases.
An action learning system designed to rapidly improve patient outcomes and patient safety using an improvement method adopted from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
A way to spread leading evidence-based practices to multidisciplinary, expanded care teams of community-based health care providers who serve patients with chronic conditions.
Transforming the delivery of primary health care by positioning health centers and other safety-net providers as patient-centered, health homes.
Participants are ...
110+ participating teams representing 350+ organizations of community-based health care providers who are actively learning leading practices.
Team members from community health centers, poison control centers, hospitals, colleges and schools of pharmacy, Ryan White HIV/AIDS program grantees, primary care associations, state health departments and rural health clinics.
The Leadership Coordinating Council, which partners with HRSA and the PSPC teams to advance the goals of the Collaborative. The LCC comprises national leaders from professional organizations, government agencies and other key stakeholders.
The Collaborative works by ...
Using a fast-paced, iterative improvement method designed to support the teams in testing and spreading leading practices, improving these practices, and spreading them through the Collaborative learning system.
An intensive series of four Learning Sessions and Action Periods, in which PSPC teams learn the leading practices from national faculty and test, refine and implement changes within their organizations.
Teams provide a monthly progress report on multiple improvement measures, which include health outcomes, patient safety, and clinical pharmacy services measures.
