Paper in JAMA Shows Community-Wide Quality Improvement Activities Reduce Hospital Readmissions

New Jersey one of 14 participating states featured in ground-breaking study

Community-wide quality improvement efforts, facilitated by state-based Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs), correlate to almost 6% average declines in rehospitalizations and hospitalizations according to a study in the January 23 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

In the study, 14 QIOs, including HQSI, systematically coordinated community-based interventions with hospitals to improve the quality of care transitions—when patients move from one care setting to another, such as from a hospital to their home—and avoid harmful and costly readmissions.

HQSI continues to successfully build on this work and now supports four additional community coalitions across nine counties. HQSI also provides assistance to readmission projects underwritten by foundations such as Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Grotta Fund for Senior Care, and works in close collaboration with organizations such as the New Jersey Hospital Association.

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