This session will examine the evolution of the National Quality Forum (NQF) Serious Reportable Events (SRE) framework from its last update in 2011 to the comprehensive 2025 modernization. Participants will explore how significant changes in healthcare delivery, including the growth of ambulatory care, telehealth, and increasingly complex care environments, coupled with lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrated the need for a more current and consistent approach to patient safety event reporting.

The presentation will also review the alignment of the updated NQF SRE List with the Joint Commission Sentinel Event framework and discuss the risk management implications of moving from parallel reporting systems to a unified national standard. Attendees will gain insight into how standardization can reduce duplicative reporting requirements, improve data consistency, enhance organizational learning, and support more meaningful trending and benchmarking across healthcare settings.

Finally, the session will highlight practical opportunities for risk, quality, and patient safety professionals to leverage the updated framework to streamline processes, reduce administrative burden, and strengthen enterprise risk management efforts while maintaining a focus on identifying, analyzing, and preventing serious patient harm events.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this session, participants will:

1. Understand why the NQF Serious Reportable Events List was updated after 15 years and how the 2025 revisions reflect today’s healthcare environment.
2. Evaluate the benefits of aligning the NQF SRE and Joint Commission Sentinel Event frameworks to reduce reporting burden and improve consistency.
3. Identify opportunities to strengthen risk management through streamlined reporting, standardized data, and more efficient safety processes.

Speaker:

Angela Peachy, CPHRM, CPXP, APPRC is the Corporate Director of Risk Management for the Hawai‘i Health Systems Corporation. She has more than 17 years of experience in hospital operations and began her career as a nurse, working for many years at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center in the Emergency Department, Medical Surgical Unit, Pediatrics, and NICU before moving into Risk Management. Angela earned her Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration from Grand Canyon University and holds several certifications, including a CPHRM in Risk Management, a CPXP in Patient Experience, and an APPRC in Patient Relations.

Her current work includes consultations, development of risk initiatives, programs, and patient safety platforms, team debriefing, patient and family disclosures, investigations of incidents, patient grievances, claims management, lessons learned, and organizational education.

Angela is the current President of the California Association of Patient Relations, Vice President of the Hawai‘i Association of Healthcare Risk Management, and a Past President of SCAHRM. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and three sons, surfing, scuba diving, sailing, going to the beach, and spending time with friends and family.

Date: Thursday, November 12, 2026

Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (PST)

Cost: $20 for Members | $35 for Non-Members

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SCAHRM is approved by the California State Bar as an MCLE Multiple Activity Provider (MAP #18946) and a Continuing Education Provider by the California Board of Nursing (CEP #10552).

This activity is approved for 1.0 MCLE credit hour and 1.0 BRN continuing education contact hours. This meeting is pending approval for a total of 1.0 contact hour of Continuing Education Credit toward fulfillment of the requirements for ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow) and for CPHRM renewal.

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