HHS anticipates this new program could save 60,000 lives over the next three years and up to $50 billion in Medicare costs over the next decade. The partnership’s two main goals are to lower the number of preventable hospital-acquired conditions by 40 percent and reduce preventable hospital readmissions by 20 percent by the end of 2013, compared to 2010.
Read the Tenet news release about the Partnership for Patients (pdf).
Read other coverage about hospital quality:
– U.K.’s Manchester Hospital Launches “YMCA” Parody Hand Hygiene Video
– ASHE, APIC Release Joint Statement Following Recent Johns Hopkins Faucet Study
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