Joint Commission Resources awarded funds to improve hospital care
Marketwire
OAK BROOK — With the backing of a $218 million federal grant, Joint Commission Resources will be part of a national effort to make health care safer and less costly by reducing preventable injuries and complications from health care-associated conditions.
As a part of the Partnership for Patients initiative, the Department of Health and Human Services is providing the funds to 26 state, regional, national, or hospital system organizations, including JCR. As a Hospital Engagement Network, JCR will select and work with 50 hospitals across several states to implement performance improvement strategies.
JCR will collaborate and innovate with the other network awardees to achieve the Partnership for Patients objectives to make care safer, more reliable, and less costly. Under JCR’s leadership, several other organizations will support the education, improvement, and measurement activities of JCR’s Hospital Engagement Network project, including The Joint Commission’s Division of Healthcare Quality Evaluation, The Patient Safety Education Program housed at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, HealthCare Team Training, LLC, EnCompass LLC, and Social Interventions and Research, Inc.
“Joint Commission Resources is pleased to be chosen as a Hospital Engagement Network and would like to thank CMS for this opportunity to actively engage in the innovative Partnership for Patients initiative. Joint Commission Resources has a strong history of working with hospitals in clinical quality and patient safety improvement initiatives, and this national project will be an important continuation of that work,” says Anne L. Rooney, vice president, Global Consulting, Joint Commission Resources.
The Hospital Engagement Networks that JCR will be working with are a key part of the Partnership for Patients initiative, and will be funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center. Hospital Engagement Networks will work to develop learning collaboratives for hospitals and provide a wide array of initiatives and activities to improve patient safety. JCR will conduct 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 activities of the Hospital Engagement Networks will be closely monitored by CMS to ensure that they are improving patient safety.
“At some point in our lives, many of us are going to need hospital care and we need to be confident that no matter where we live, we’re going to get the best care in the world,” said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “The Partnership for Patients is helping the nation’s finest health systems share their knowledge and resources to make sure every hospital knows how to provide all of its patients with the highest quality care.”