Reducing hospital readmission rates is a national priority. Approximately 20% of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted within 30 days of discharge, and these readmissions have been estimated to cost the American public >$15 billion per year.1 The National Quality Forum has endorsed hospital risk-standardized readmission rates (RSRRs) as performance measures, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publicly report these rates. The Patient Protection Affordable Care Act of 2010 has created new incentives to reduce readmissions using the publicly reported measures because hospitals with high readmission rates can lose ≤3% of their Medicare reimbursement by 2015. In response, dozens of national, state-based, and local quality campaigns and collaboratives have emerged to help hospitals reduce readmissions.