2016 National Quality Strategy Six Priorities
| Priority | Long-term goal |
| Make care safe by reducing harm from care | Decrease hospital admissions and readmissions |
| Reduce medical errors and harm from medical care | |
| Reduce inappropriate or unnecessary care | |
| Ensure patients and families are engaged in care decisions | Improve patient experience |
| Use shared decision making between providers and patients | |
| Enable patients in managing their care | |
| Make communication and coordination of care effective | Improve communication and transitions across settings |
| Improve quality of life for chronically ill and disabled | |
| Integrate care across communities and reduce health disparity | |
| Promote prevention of leading causes of death | Improve cardiovascular disease health socially, economically, and environmentally |
| Promote healthy lifestyle | |
| Work with communities to promote use of best practices | Promote community interventions and community health |
| Make health care more affordable | Ensure quality, accessibility, and affordability of care |
| Reduce waste and fraud |
Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services National Quality Strategy 2016 (20).