Jalnapurkar S, et al. - This inquiry was set up to identify the relationship between hospital performance on 30-day risk-standardized readmission rates (RSRR) in heart failure (HF) patients and long-term patient survival. In this work, hospital performance on 30-day readmissions in HF was shown to have no or little association with risk adjusted 3-year mortality or median survival. In addition, a compelling need to utilize more meaningful and patient-centered outcome measures for reporting and incentivizing quality care for HF was realized.