Getting Started with H2H 

Designed as a “pre-flight checklist”, the items below are to help you get started with H2H.

H2H Overview 

• View the H2H Overview Slides

Know the H2H Evidence-Based Core Concept Areas

• View the Early Follow-Up Evidence Slides
• View the Med Management Evidence Slides
• View the Signs and Symptoms Evidence Slides

Understand the Business Case

• View the Business Case Slide Deck
• View the Key Hospital Readmission Provisions in Health Reform Law
• View the Inclusion and Exclusion for CMS HF and AMI Readmission Measures
• Know your current readmission rate at www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov

Build Your Project

• Identify physician and nurse champions for your H2H project
• State the business case to executive and clinical leadership in the hospital
• Letter to hospital leadership from ACC H2H Leadership
• Form interdisciplinary team to work on your H2H project
  • Organize a Team
  • Characteristics of effective teams
• Adopt an H2H Challenge Project using the ACC QI Tool Kit

Download a PDF of the H2H Getting Started Checklist