The Tennessee Hospital Association has been selected as one of the state hospital associations under the Health Research and Education Trust (HRET) of the American Hospital Association to continue efforts in reducing preventable hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions. Through the Partnership for Patients initiative - a nationwide public-private collaboration that began in 2011 to reduce preventable hospital-acquired conditions by 40 percent and 30-day readmissions by 20 percent - THA will continue to participate in this national effort to improve patient care in the hospital setting. This third round of the program will continue across three years.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has rebranded the Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) as the Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN). The HIIN program will integrate CMS' Quality Improvement Network-Quality Improvement Organization program and the current HEN program to continue the work of the Partnership for Patients. By aligning these programs, CMS expects to advance the systematic use of innovative patient safety practices on a national scale.