Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

LOOKING AHEAD: Reducing Patient Harm through the Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network

Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network

Goals
Reduce patient harm by 40 percent and hospital readmissions by 20 percent in three years. Reduce early elective deliveries – scheduled births before 39 weeks – to fewer than 3 percent percent of all Florida births by 2013.

About
FHA’s successful collaboratives now continue under our Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network in partnership with HRET. Through the national initiative, our hospitals continue to build upon gains made through earlier collaboratives to reduce readmissions and medical complications, with additional resources and expertise to accelerate learning and improvement. Currently, 74 hospitals from across the state are part of FHA’s network. (Other Florida hospitals belong to other Hospital Engagement Networks.)
Hospitals in 31 states are able to share best practices and participate in joint educational opportunities through HRET; for Florida’s hospitals the effort means already-established statewide collaboration is now expanded nationally. In fact, Florida’s hospitals have been frequently called upon to share their learnings with other states.