Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks – Impr

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Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks – Improving Hospital Care

The Department of Health & Human Services today announced that hospitals across the country will have new resources and support to make health care safer and less costly by targeting and reducing the millions of preventable injuries and complications from healthcare acquired conditions. As part of the Partnership for Patients initiative, a nationwide public-private collaboration to improve the quality, safety, and affordability of the healthcare system for all Americans, $218 million was awarded to 26 State, regional, national, or hospital system organizations to be Hospital Engagement Networks. As Hospital Engagement Networks, these organizations will help identify solutions already working to reduce healthcare acquired conditions, and work to spread them to other hospitals and health care providers.

Hospital Engagement Networks will work to develop learning collaboratives for hospitals and provide a wide array of initiatives and activities to improve patient safety. They will be required to conduct intensive training programs to teach and support hospitals in making patient care safer, provide technical assistance to hospitals so that hospitals can achieve quality measurement goals, and establish and implement a system to track and monitor hospital progress in meeting quality improvement goals.

The 26 Hospital Engagement Networks are:
American Hospital Association;
Ascension Health;
Carolinas HealthCare System;
Catholic Healthcare West;
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation;
Georgia Hospital Association Research and Education Foundation;
Healthcare Association of New York State;
Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania;
Intermountain Healthcare;
Iowa Healthcare Collaborative;
Joint Commission Resources, Inc.;
Lifepoint Hospitals, Inc.;
Michigan Health & Hospital Association;
Minnesota Hospital Association;
National Public Health and Hospital Institute;
New Jersey Hospital Association;
Nevada Hospital Association;
North Carolina Hospital Association;
Ohio Children’s Hospital Solutions for Patient Safety;
Ohio Hospital Association;
Premier;
Tennessee Hospital Association;
Texas Center for Quality & Patient Safety;
UHC;
VHA; and,
Washington State Hospital Association.