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, 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: 

    • 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 

  • 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