The Partners in Excellence mobile app provides busy clinicians and physicians without computer
access readily available the opportunity to obtain quick key facts on the 10 Core Focus Areas
outlined in the Ascension Health Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Partnership for
Patients contract: Adverse Drug Events (ADEs), Obstetrical Adverse Events - Eliminating Early Elective

Deliveries, Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI), Central Line-Associated Bloodstream
Infections (CLABSI), Surgical Site Infections (SSI), Injuries from Falls and Immobility (IFI), Pressure Ulcers,
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP), Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) and Preventing Readmissions.

Within each Core Focus Area, users are able to access quick-hitting facts grouped as:

• Did you know?
• What you need to know
• How to keep patients safe
• Best practices