Our Goals
The leadership of SPS has defined a three-year vision with the following network priorities that will accomplish its ultimate objective of eliminating harm in children’s hospitals:
- Decrease rates of the most common serious patient and employee harms
- Improve safety culture
- Identify and eliminate safety disparities
- Create robust learning systems for ambulatory safety
Through broad-stakeholder input, including a comment period open to all Network hospitals, SPS has identified the following mid-term & three-year goals (2022-2024) to provide the Network’s 145+ children’s hospitals with clear, shared patient and employee/staff harm reduction goals…:
By June 30, 2023:
- 75% of hospitals will complete milestones of the Recognizing & Eliminating Disparities in Safety goal
- Every network hospital CEO/Top Pediatric Leader attends SPS-offered learning opportunities focused on Employee Safety Culture
- At least 80% of network hospitals submit DART data to SPS
By December 31, 2024:
- At least 75% of hospitals will meet a:
- 10% reduction in Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSI)
- 20% reduction in Unplanned Extubations (UE)
- Hospital Selected Goal (HSG) in a spread or sustain hospital acquired condition (HAC) in the SPS portfolio
- The network will achieve a:
- 30% reduction in network serious safety event rate (SSER)
- 20% reduction in patient behavioral event (PBE) DART rate
- 10% reduction in network days away, restricted, or transferred (DART) rate.
