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Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care Learning Network - Background

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On behalf of the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) and New Jersey Health Initiatives, welcome to the Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care Learning Network. Ten New Jersey hospitals have been selected as grant recipients who will participate in this 24-month quality improvement program. The Project in New Jersey is modeled after the National Project: Expecting Success. Using a collaborative Learning Network of 10 hospitals around the state, this initiative will develop and disseminate quality improvement strategies, models and resources to improve cardiac care for African-American and Hispanic/Latino patients diagnosed with heart failure.

The Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care Learning Network provides a great opportunity for hospital teams of healthcare professionals to collaborate and develop quality improvement strategies and plans to improve care. The Network will provide a forum to identify evidence-based practices for optimal management of heart failure and ultimately improve health outcomes for African-Americans and Hispanic/Latino residents across New Jersey.

Expecting Success is focusing on the continuum of cardiovascular care delivered in inpatient and outpatient settings with four goals:

To improve heart failure care for African-Americans and Hispanics/Latinos in New Jersey;
To develop effective, replicable quality-improvement strategies, models and resources;
To encourage the spread of those strategies and models to additional clinical areas;
To share relevant lessons learned with healthcare providers and policy-makers. *

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*Support for Expecting Success was provided from a grant from New Jersey Health Initiatives, a statewide grantmaking program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI) is a statewide grantmaking program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The NJHI program office is located on the Camden campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. This program office is funded through a grant to the Rutgers Institute of Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research.

New Jersey Health Initiatives supports advancement in health services delivery, improvement in health and the expansion of leadership expertise through grantmaking across the State of New Jersey. To meet the many health needs of our state's diverse populations, regions and communities, the NJHI program encourages improvement and collaboration in health service programs, delivery systems, provider arrangements and financing mechanisms.