The GNYHA Quality and Patient Safety (QPS) Resource Center was launched recently on GNYHA's Web site, www.gnyha.org. The Web site supports GNYHA members in their efforts to meet the expanding challenge of providing quality patient care and meeting the demands of regulatory and accrediting bodies that measure and report on quality and performance. The QPS Resource Center is designed to provide tools and best practices as well as up-to-date information on research findings and regulatory standards related to the provision of quality health care. The QPS Resource Center also captures the materials that GNYHA has offered at its many educational briefings, as well as its meetings of the Quality and Patient Safety Steering Committee and the Emergency Department Patient Flow, Medication Safety, and Infection Control workgroups.

The QPS Resource Center provides information under the following categories: Agency and Accrediting Bodies, GNYHA Tools and Techniques for Improving and Measuring Quality and Patient Safety, Patient Safety Topics, Health Care Report Cards, GNYHA Quality and Patient Safety Workgroups, Technology for Quality and Patient Safety, GNYHA Products, Upcoming Quality and Patient Safety Events, and Quality and Patient Safety Related Links.

GNYHA will also be adding information on best practices that will help its members share tools, protocols, and templates to enhance quality and patient safety. GNYHA members can register for a password to the members' section of the Web site by clicking on "GNYHA Member Login," then "GNYHA Members' Registration." If you would like to post any best practices on the Web site, send them to Terri Straub at straub@gnyha.org.