One of MHA's Strategic Improvement Performance Agenda priorities made advances in February as more than 400 care providers attended the State Action on Avoidable Readmissions (STAAR) project's second learning session in Framingham, Massachusetts. The STAAR project is focused on improving care transitions to reduce readmissions.

A total of 49 cross-continuum teams attended the session. Twenty-two of the teams have been part of the STAAR project since September 2009, and 27 new teams came to the event to learn from their colleagues and begin their own work. The cross-continuum teams include hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, physician offices, home health agencies, and community service providers from across the state.

The Massachusetts leads for the STAAR Project are MHA, the Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors, and the Massachusetts Medical Society. 

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