U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Improving quality, safety and affordability of health care for all Americans is a key health care goal for our nation. The Partnership for Patients (PfP) campaign was launched in April 2011 with the ambitious goals of reducing preventable hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) by 40 percent and 30-day hospital readmissions by 20 percent. To reduce harm at this level of magnitude, the campaign implemented a strategy to align all health care stakeholders, including federal and other public and private health care payors, providers, and patients, to focus on this issue concurrently. By influencing everyone to move in the same direction at the same time, the program strove to overcome the inherently limited reach of any single initiative operating in a complex environment.
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Partnership for Patients: Interim Evaluation Report
This is an interim evaluation report for the Partnership for Patients (PfP) campaign. The goals of the evaluation were to assess the reduction in inpatient harms and readmissions during the period 2011–2014, and to assess, if possible, the contribution that PfP made to those reductions.
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