“…No single list of supplemental programs was implemented across the board at all 17 hospitals in our region, as each hospital selected the ones that were most effective for their own particular hospital (8,20). As is noted prominently in various studies, collaboration remains a key ingredient in sustaining successful, long-term AD reduction and eventual AD elimination (20)(21)(22)34,35). We successfully utilized collaborative methods in our 3-2-1 Plan, which included multi-hospital efforts and the use of Internet tools that closely tied individual hospitals with their EMS providers to significantly reduce and eliminate AD.…”