Chairperson's File
Blog posts from 2025 AHA Board Chair Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health, and past chairs.
Community members are integral partners at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania, helping to ensure high-quality, equitable care. Based in the cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, LVHN for many years had provided culturally competent services, including telephonic interpreters,…
Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls are the leading cause of both fatal and nonfatal injuries; in 2012, 24 million nonfatal falls among older adults were treated in EDs and more than 722,000 of these patients were hospitalized, per the CDC…
How is your hospital building a culture of health in the community? That is, a culture in which adults and children—whatever their ethnic, geographic, racial or socioeconomic circumstance may be—live longer, healthier lives and have access to high-quality health care when, where and how…
Diversity has become a core value at U.S. hospitals. Meridian Health, a not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, displays its diversity statement, central to mission and vision, at its six hospitals as well as its nursing and rehabilitation centers and outpatient centers—and…
Making incremental changes and collaborating with area hospitals and community organizations have been a winning combination for improving care coordination and reducing readmissions at Bon Secours Baltimore Health System. The health system serves a West Baltimore population with 20% of families…
Nearly 1,500 U.S. hospitals are working to eliminate patient harm and reduce hospital readmissions by participating in the AHA/HRET Hospital Engagement Network. About 200 of these hospitals have currently met the national reduction goals established through the CMS Partnership for Patients…
The answer is HPOE.org. The question: Where do hospital and care system leaders find resources and tools to improve patient safety, quality, clinical integration, population health, and much more? The Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence website has one section devoted to the second curve of health…
Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their work with the field.
Trustees, senior leaders and quality chairs play a pivotal role as their hospitals and health care systems pursue opportunities to transform care and better serve their patients and communities. The AHA offers many resources for the ongoing work to improve quality and safety.
Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviation—mix in specialized safety training for all hospital staff, use common-cause and root-cause analyses and enhance with lessons and stories from front-line staff—then combine all to…