CMS Innovation Center reviving Partnership for Patients

Modern Healthcare: The CMS Innovation Center plans to revive the Partnership for Patients, the $1 billion patient-safety initiative that ended last December, and will attempt to fix a flaw in its structure that obscured the results.

State hospital associations, major U.S. health systems and other companies formed so-called hospital engagement networks under the initiative and agreed to aggressive targets to reduce hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions.

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