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
- Adopt an H2H Challenge Project using the ACC QI Tool Kit
Download a PDF of the H2H Getting Started Checklist