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The collaborative was initially formed in June 2005 with funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to support and accelerate
San Francisco Bay Area hospital implementation of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s “100,000 Lives Campaign,”
a national effort to reduce preventable deaths in US hospitals. In 18 months
3,100 participating hospitals saved an estimated 122,000 lives.
The Hospital Council of Northern and Central California received the initial
grant to serve as a communications hub for hospitals and to collaborate on the IHI
campaign, as well as to assess the feasibility of a collaborative.
Originally known as the Bay Area Patient Safety Collaborative (BAPSC), the effort
was renamed Beacon when the Moore Foundation provided $1.94 million to the Hospital
Council in April 2007 for the second phase of the collaborative’s work.
During this funding phase, Beacon will develop a data collection methodology for
each initiative and support participating hospitals’ development of intervention
outcome targets and measurement strategies. Phase two goals also include sponsoring
quality improvement training, on-site quality improvement support, and sponsoring
a Bay Area-wide patient safety colloquium with national and local speakers.
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