Initiatives/Campaigns
黑料正能量 Association advocacy initiatives and campaigns.
Collaborating with community based organizations is more important now than ever. Hospital and health systems across the country are 鈥渞edefining the H鈥 by looking outside of their four walls to create innovative and sustainable partnerships that ultimately lead to healthier communities. At the鈥
This template provides hospitals with an easy way to estimate savings the 340B hospital derives from participating in the 340B program.
This template provides hospitals with an easy way to share their mission and community served and the impact if the 340B program is scaled back.
To ensure good stewardship of the 340B program, hospitals participating in the program should structure hospital policies and practices to demonstrate their commitment. That demonstration of commitment includes sharing publicly how 340B savings are used to benefit the community, by, for example鈥
In 2015, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation funded HRET to strengthen care transitions by creating Huddle for Care, a website designed to foster sharing and learning between individuals in the care transitions field. The website features stories and effective tools related to care transition鈥
In early 2011, AHA members, committees, regional policy boards and staff discussed and crafted a mandatory influenza vaccination policy, which was then approved by the board of directors:
Approximately 11,000 fatal patient falls occur in U.S. hospitals annually, but hospitals using new measurement systems and solutions from the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Preventing Falls with Injury project were able to reduce the number of patients injured in a fall by 62鈥
As of March 2014, progress generally has been positive toward achieving the HP2020 targets for the 26 LHIs, with 14 indicators (53.9%) having either met their target or shown improvement: 4 indicators (15.4%) have met or exceeded their HP2020 targets. 10 indicators (38.5%) are improving. 8鈥
Million Hearts is a national initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017. It brings together communities, health systems, nonprofit organizations, federal agencies and private-sector partners from across the country to fight heart disease and stroke.
AHA NOVA Awards honor effective, collaborative programs focused on improving community health status. The 2013 winners are: