Chairperson's File
Blog posts from 2025 AHA Board Chair Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health, and past chairs.
Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Regional Medical Center, Salisbury, NC, has developed a disease management program aimed at reducing readmissions. Work started with the Igloo initiative at RRMC and has expanded to a project funded…
May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Office of Women's Health. This celebration provides an opportunity to highlight how you can use this website to focus on a specific patient population like women or a specific topic area like…
Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community with clinical interventions at the local level. About three years ago, the Alliance decided to focus on population health. Billings Clinic, a not-for-profit health care organization based in Billings, Mont…
For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering problems and even amputation. The patient community in the rural area served by Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center, Ogdensburg, N.Y., has a high incidence of diabetes and obesity, which can cause a high rate of…
Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its community in relation to its workforce and care delivery. In 2001, the executive team at the 578-bed acute care system in Anderson, South Carolina, formalized a commitment to diversity. The health…
Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson participated in Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This initiative aimed to improve quality of cardiac…
How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Madras, Ore., can count the 1,660 pounds that participants collectively lost in Movin? Mountains Health Challenge 2010. MVH serves a diverse, rural and somewhat economically…
A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing health care disparities. Alameda County Medical Center had these pieces in place to address disparities. Participating in the Disparities Leadership Program , at Massachusetts General Hospital, was the…
Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In turn, the population served by University Hospitals, Cleveland, has become more ethnically diverse. To better serve current patients and welcome new patients, UH's board charged hospital leadership…
The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by actively collecting racial, ethnic and religious data, the 134-bed hospital discovered pockets of socioeconomic and minority groups who could benefit from specialized services. Heywood formed a…