ACCP is participating as an invited partner organization with the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) in a multi-organizational effort to identify and establish benchmarks to improve the standards of quality care for individuals affected by heart failure. The effort aligns closely with the College’s mission and strategic initiatives in interprofessional care delivery and research to develop, advance, and position clinical pharmacists as integral members of patients’ health care teams.
J. Herbert Patterson, Pharm.D., FCCP, is representing ACCP on the HFSA Quality Care Task Force Initiative, which held its initial meeting on June 8, 2015, in Chicago. Dr. Patterson, a past secretary of the ACCP Board of Regents, has been active in the activities of HFSA for several years. He currently serves as a professor of pharmacy in the division of pharmacotherapy and experimental therapeutics at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy and research professor of medicine in the UNC School of Medicine.
The HFSA Quality Care Task Force Initiative brings together key heart failure stakeholders to gather their collective views on the current status of heart failure quality of care in the United States and gain insight on ways to make improvements.
HFSA CEO Michele Blair states, “Our goal is to improve upon the systems of care to standardize best practices and ensure continuum of care for patients. We believe this may be the first such meeting to bring together this many interdisciplinary clinicians to look at this.” In addition to ACCP, HFSA Collaborative Partners include: