Kaiser Permanente has joined the federal government's Partnership for Patients program - a $1 billion patient safety initiative aimed at improving care and reducing costs.
Partnership for Patients: Better Care, Lower Costs is a new public-private coalition announced in April by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The program is designed to help improve the healthcare quality, patient safety, and affordability of health care for all Americans.
"Patient safety is one of our top priorities and is a critical component of all our quality improvement programs," said Jed Weissberg, MD, senior vice president, Hospitals, Quality and Care Delivery. "We believe this initiative is a great step forward in elevating patient safety as a high priority nationally, and we hope that it will help place greater emphasis on the importance of continual development, testing and implementation of new programs that are aimed at the achieving the goals of reducing harm."
Partnership for Patients will focus on hospital safety with the goal of reducing preventable hospital-acquired conditions by 40 percent. This is expected to save 60,000 lives, and reducing hospital readmissions by 20 percent over the next three years. The partnership has the potential to save up to $35 billion in health care costs, including up to $10 billion for Medicare.
The initiative aligns with Kaiser Permanente's dedicated emphasis on patient safety and its organizational goal to prevent adverse events and health care-associated infections.
"Every patient has the right to safe and reliable health care," said Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, associate executive director, The Permanente Federation. "We are proud to support this new national initiative that aims to bring us one step closer to that goal."
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