Child Health Patient Safety Organization

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Improve safety outcomes and collaborate with peer hospitals in a federally protected environment.

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The Child Health Patient Safety Organization® is a federally protected network of children’s hospitals working together to make health care safer for kids.

As the only PSO in the U.S. focused solely on children, we’ve spent nearly two decades helping pediatric hospitals transform individual safety events into collective progress.

Within our confidential environment, members share real cases, surface emerging risks, and build safer systems of care.

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The power of a PSO

Unlike traditional safety collaboratives, PSOs allow hospitals to submit and discuss detailed safety cases under federal confidentiality and privilege protections, grounding solutions in the realities and complexities of patient care.

“The PSO is a powerful resource for improving safety culture and driving meaningful change.”– Annie Marcinko, Golisano Children’s at UK

Within this unique environment, we combine comprehensive case analysis and candid shared learning to deliver insights and improvements that hospitals can’t gain in isolation.

As a result, our members see measurable reductions in serious safety events year after year.

  • View Child Health PSO publications

    The Child Health PSO at 10 Years: An Emerging Learning Network
    Levy, Fiona H. MD, MBA; Conrad, Katherine A. FACHE; Kemper, Carol RN, PhD, CPHQ, CPPS, FAAN; Green, Michaeleen BA
    Pediatric Quality & Safety. 2021 Jul 28; 6(4):e449. DOI: 10.1097/pq9.0000000000000449

    Factors Related to Serious Safety Events in a Children's Hospital Patient Safety Collaborative
    Stephanie Burrus, DO, Matthew Hall, PhD, Emily Tooley, MSN, RN, Kate Conrad, FACHE, Jessica L. Bettenhausen, MD, Carol Kemper, PhD, RN
    Pediatrics. 2021;148(3): e2020030346. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-030346

    Feasibility and Perceived Value of a Team Diagnostic Timeout: A Multi-institutional Pilot Study
    Jonathan Sawicki, MD, MSCI; Elise Buckwalter, MSN, CPNP-AC; Emily Tooley, MSN, RN; Matt Hall, PhD; Vicki Montgomery, MD; Jared Capouya, MD, MS, HQS; Jeanann P. Pardue, MD; Sandip A. Godambe, MD, PhD
    Hospital Pediatrics. 2026; 16(7): e513–e517. https://doi.org/10.1542/hpeds.2025-008711

    Improvement in Huddle Participation Among the Child Health Patient Safety Organization
    Anne Dykes, MSN; Matthew Hall, PhD; Emily Tooley, MSN; Stephanie Burrus, DO; Kelly Johnson, DNP; Autumne Harding, MSN, APRN; and Sandip A. Godambe, MD, PhD
    American Journal of Medical Quality. 2026. 41(4):p 178-185, July/August. DOI: 10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000315

    Redesigning a Culture of Safety and High Reliability – Advancing our Patient Safety Organizational Learning System Through the Kirkpatrick Framework
    Sandip A. Godambe, MD, PhD, Frank Federico, BS Pharm, Emily Tooley, RN, MSN, Jared Capouya, MD, Brittany Pfeifer, APRN, MSN, Kristen Frost, APRN, DNP, Timothy McDonald, MD, JD
    The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2026. ISSN 1553-7250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjq.2026.06.004

Actionable Resources

Safety Watch

Emerging Safety Risks for Pediatric Hospitals

Stay aware of these known risks to ensure patient safety. Exclusive for PSO members.

April 15, 2026
Collection

Pediatric Risk Review

Fresh insights on enduring safety issues.

Toolkit

Diagnostic Safety Toolkit

The diagnostic safety toolkit provides strategies to make improvements through communication. It's designed to be used anywhere in an organization and with any diagnosis.

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