Chairperson's File
Blog posts from 2025 AHA Board Chair Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health, and past chairs.
Here's an excellent opportunity for health care executives to study and discuss pressing health care issues with a cohort of other health care leaders and experts in the field. The AHA's Health Care Transformation Fellowship focuses on health care transformation topics, including clinician鈥
Homelessness is a hidden but real issue in Chittenden County, VT. University of Vermont Medical Center, based in Burlington, is collaborating with several community organizations to provide housing and improve health care to homeless individuals and families. A recent community health needs鈥
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Read the AHA/HPOE guide for hospitals 鈥淧reventing Patient Falls: A Systematic Approach from the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Project.'
A health care collaboration in rural Missouri is expanding patient access to primary and behavioral health care services. In Lexington, Mo., as in many rural communities, there are not enough local resources to meet demand for primary care, dental care and psychiatric services. Lafayette Regional鈥
At hospitals and health care systems across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are leading initiatives to achieve the Triple Aim: improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction), improving the health of populations and reducing the per capita cost of health鈥
Since September 2015, the AHA/HRET HEN 2.0 hospitals have been working to reduce hospital-acquired conditions by 40 percent and readmissions by 20 percent as part of the Partnership for Patients campaign. For the Health Forum/AHA Leadership Summit this past July, quality and patient safety managers鈥
Every aspect of a patient's experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused resources: the health care physical environment and the people who manage it. A Sept. 21 Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence webinar 鈥淚mproving the Patient Experience Through the Health Care Physical鈥
鈥淓very staff member counts鈥 and 鈥渆very patient counts.鈥 With this mantra, AllianceHealth Pryor in Pryor Creek, Okla., has reduced readmissions and improved responsiveness to patient needs. Goals for the hospital's readmissions reduction project included improving鈥
Developing and sustaining hospital-community partnerships to address community health needs are crucial for building a Culture of Health. That is, a culture that gives every individual access to affordable, quality health care to maintain, or reclaim, health.
A vigorous approach to quality improvement at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., is achieving excellent, sustainable patient outcomes and spreading innovation. The teaching hospital is the 2016 winner of the AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize. Memorial Medical Center uses Lean Six鈥