Safety Disparities

We have a moral obligation to provide safe and equitable care for all children.

As a part of 2022-2024 goal setting, the SPS Board of Trustees named “Identify and eliminate safety disparities” as one of four strategic priorities for the network. Working to understand safety disparities assists us in understanding drivers of gaps in outcomes and can help us attain further harm reduction.

SPS has a goal to support all network hospitals in developing structures and processes with the initial objective of submitting CLABSI and/or UE-ICU data stratified by patient race and ethnicity. Collecting and analyzing high quality data is foundational to eliminating disparities. Our ultimate goal is to implement an improvement strategy to eliminate the disparities that we observe.