The Board’s Patient Care Assessment (PCA) program, receives three kinds of reports from hospitals: Major Incident Reports (MIR), detailing events resulting in death or serious impairment of a patient; and Annual and Semi-Annual Reports which detail a facility’s progress with respect to its patient safety program. Having eliminated a years long backlog of report review, the PCA Committee turned its focus to encouraging greater reporting compliance by hospitals, faster and more detailed review and more comprehensive data analysis. In 2004 compliance reached an all-time high, with 73 percent of hospitals submitting MIRs and 100 percent submitting Annual and Semi-Annual.
