CQPS Mission:
To mobilize the diverse healthcare stakeholders in metropolitan Chicago to provide the best possible care to every patient every time by eliminating preventable harm and implementing systemic change to ensure consistent excellence.

CQPS Goals

• Identify known, evidence-based best practices which can be broadly implemented. The core purpose is to improve care through knowledge transfer, not to develop new knowledge.
  
• Stimulate and drive collaboration, research, or pilot studies to develop new knowledge or expand on what is known when recognized best-practices are inadequate for high-priority safety or quality issues.
  
• Focus on measurably improving care through partnerships among consumers, providers, payers and other stakeholders (i.e. government, employers, etc).
  
• Commit to transparency of process and outcome both locally and nationally: share what we have learned.

Member commitment
Our members are healthcare professionals, patients and patient advocates committed to:
- Reducing preventable medical errors
- Avoiding repeating those errors
- Improving the quality of healthcare
- Never stop learning

CQPS welcomes Chicago area healthcare professionals, patient advocates, educators, students and insurers from the public and private sector. CQPS collaborates with a national network of patient safety organizations. Click here to join CQPS.

CQPS is funded through the generosity and support of our partners.

Donations and in-kind contributions for projects are welcomed.
For information, click here.

Click here to read CQPS history.

Click here for information about the IOMC/CPSF/Otho S. A. Sprague Recognition Award(s) in Patient Safety.