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The Alliance for Home Health Quality Innovation (https://www.ahhqi.org/about/history) is a nonprofit dedicated to improving the nation’s health care system by supporting research and education to demonstrate the value of home‐based care. Membership includes both nonprofit and proprietary home health care providers, academic experts, and all three major trade associations for home health care (the Visiting Nurse Associations of America, the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, and the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare). This alliance’s guiding principles—integrity, innovation, transparency, and respect—reflect its commitment to evidence‐based research and education on home health that will further efforts to improve lives for patients, reduce costs throughout the US healthcare system, and define the future of health care at home. Innovations in care delivery that appropriately leverage home health care have the potential to contribute lasting, positive change to the health care system. The Alliance's programs and initiatives are aimed at contributing to the national dialogue about improving health care.

Historically there have been similar alliances that included nursing as partners in efforts to improve quality. These alliances have either dissolved in lieu of other broad‐based partnerships to impact the quality and safety of patients, or have been absorbed into other existing entities. These groups included Hospital Quality Alliance, Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance, Alliance for Pediatric Quality, Long‐Term Quality Alliance, Kidney Care Quality Alliance, Quality Alliance Steering Committee, and Institute of Pediatric Nursing.