Healthcare Transparency - Reporting About Our Care
Our hospital voluntarily supports many of the existing efforts to promote best practices, reporting quality and safety performance results and advances designed to support the development of new evaluative measures for healthcare.
About Health Transparency
This website tracks the latest news related to healthcare quality, pricing and consumer satisfaction. News and information provided includes information on: healthcare transparency, value-driven health care, public reporting legislation and health care report cards, including hospital report cards, nursing home report cards, home health report cards and more.
 California Nursing Outcomes Coalition (CalNOC)
California Nursing Outcomes Coalition (CalNOC) emerged as a self-funded, joint venture between Association of California Nurse Leaders and the American Nurses Association/California. The hospital participates in the CalNOC Database Project, which is an unprecedented collaborative effort to establish a statewide nursing quality outcomes database. The Project involves a diverse team of staff nurses, advanced practice clinicians, educators, researchers, administrators and leaders in nursing in attaining a shared vision of designing, systematically implementing, and evaluating this statewide nursing outcomes database.
The Joint Commission
The Joint Commission has a longstanding commitment to providing meaningful information about the comparative performance of accredited organizations to the public. As an accredited hospital, performance information about Children's Hospital Los Angeles can be found in The Joint Commission’s comprehensive guide to U.S. health care organizations. Using Quality Check, visitors can:
- Search for organizations by city and state, by name or by zip code (up to 250 miles)
- Find organizations by type of service provided within a geographic area. The results can be filtered by type of provider, setting of care or patient population
- Identify Joint Commission accredited or certified organizations by The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™
- View the comprehensive Quality Report and Childrens Hospital performance on National Patient Safety Goals and National Quality Improvement Goals
The Joint Commission also launched a "Speak Up" program designed to encourage parents to know how to communicate with healthcare staff to prevent medical errors in their child's care.
 Leapfrog Group
The hospital participates in the Leapfrog Survey managed by the Leapfrog Group. It is Leapfrog’s hallmark public reporting initiative. It was launched in 2001 and is now in its fifth version. The Survey assesses hospital performance based on four quality and safety practices that are proven to reduce preventable medical mistakes and are endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF). The Leapfrog Group is a voluntary program aimed at mobilizing employer purchasing power to alert America’s health industry that big leaps in health care safety, quality and customer value will be recognized and rewarded. Among other initiatives, Leapfrog works with its employer members to encourage transparency and easy access to health care information as well as rewards for hospitals that have a proven record of high quality care. Click Here for A Report Card for Our Hospital
Pediatric Quality Measurement System
The National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions' Pediatric Quality Measurement System (PQMS) offers robust, real-time, unblinded access to pediatric ORYX® core and non-core quality measures for all participating member hospitals. PQMS is designed to be a one-stop shop of pediatric quality measures that will allow children’s hospitals to meet all of their data accreditation needs for The Joint Commission. Future pediatric applicable ORYX® core measure sets will be incorporated into PQMS as well as new non-core measures in development. It adds significant capability to the types of measures NACHRI can collect and enhances the comparative features of the data, increasing relevance and quality of the measures.
 Professional Research Consultants, Inc. (PRC)
This organization administers the inpatient, ambulatory and Emergency Department Satisfaction surveys and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) culture of safety survey for our hospital. This external marketing research organization providing services exclusively for the healthcare industry.
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
 Located in Richmond, Virginia, UNOS is a non-profit, scientific and educational organization that administers the nation's only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), established by the U.S. Congress in 1984. Through the OPTN, data are collected and managed about every transplant event occurring in the United States. It facilitates the organ matching and placement process using UNOS-developed data technology and the UNOS Organ Center. And, UNOS brings together medical professionals, transplant recipients and donor families to develop organ transplantation policy.
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