The ACC has joined with 11 other professional societies and patient and caregiver groups around a Heart Failure Charter highlighting challenges to optimal transitions of care for heart failure patients.

The goal of the Charter is to reduce the number of hospitalizations and preventative readmissions by targeting key unmet needs across the continuum of care where intervention and educational efforts can improve overall patient outcomes. According to the American Heart Association, an estimated one in four patients with heart failure are re-hospitalized within a month of their initial hospitalization. Many of these hospitalizations are preventable and increase the burden on patients, caregivers, and the health care system.

View the Charter.

ACC Heart Failure Resources:

• ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway on Risk Assessment, Management, and Clinical Trajectory of Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure
• Clinician and Patient Education and Resources
• JACC: Heart Failure
• Heart Failure and Transplant Member Section

Keywords: Caregivers, Patient Readmission, Hospitalization, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Heart Failure, Continuity of Patient Care

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