On Friday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released to all U.S. hospitals their performance on six key measures, in preparation for public announcement of these measures this summer.  The measures: 30-day mortality and 30-day readmissions for heart failure; acute myocardial infarction; and community-acquired pneumonia.

Hospital to Home
"Hospital to Home" -- a new partnership between the ACC and Institute for Healthcare Improvement -- is moving along swiftly, as a way to help our members reduce CV hospital readmissions. CV hospital readmissions are currently at 25% of discharges within 30 days. 

Though our Hospital to Home (H2H) project, we aim to reduce 30-day all-cause readmissions for heart failure and AMI by 20% nationally by December 2012.  The project will officially launch when the CMS measures are publicly released this summer.  Watch the video below for more info.

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