Hospital Engagement Network Contract
to Improve Patient Care

Contract is designed to improve patient care and cut readmissions

The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), an affiliate of the American Hospital Association (AHA), has been awarded a contract by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to support their Partnership for Patients (PfP) campaign. PfP is a public-private partnership that intends to help improve the quality, safety and affordability of health care for all Americans. The project will help hospitals adopt new practices that have the potential to reduce inpatient harm by 40 percent and readmissions by 20 percent over the contract.

The PfP will focus on ten areas for quality improvement. Within these areas, HRET will support the implementation of proven best practices and lessons learned through the use of webinars and educational sessions to hospitals participating in the partnership.  HRET will provide this education and training with the nearly 1,800 hospitals recruited by its 33 state hospital association partners in support of their quality improvement efforts in the targeted areas:

• Adverse drug events (ADE)
• Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI)
• Central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSI)
• Injuries from falls and immobility
• Obstetrical adverse events
• Pressure ulcers
• Surgical site infections
• Venous thromboembolism (VTE)
• Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)
• Preventable readmissions

As a Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) HRET will help identify solutions already working to reduce health care acquired conditions, and establish ways to spread them to other hospitals and health care providers.HENs will work to develop learning collaboratives for hospitals and provide a wide array of initiatives and activities to improve patient safety.  Intensive training programs will be conducted to teach and support hospitals in making patient care safer, provide technical assistance 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.

Press Release

• HRET Awarded Hospital Engagement Network Contract to Improve Patient Care
  December 15, 2011

List of Participating States

If you are interested in participating, email Maulik Joshi, DrPH at mjoshi@aha.org