Public

黑料正能量 Association content that is available to the public and all website users.

Today we need leaders who can help address the challenges and maximize the tremendous opportunities for transformation and innovation in the U.S. health care system. AHA's intensive interactive Health Care Transformation Fellowship provides senior health care leaders with the implementation鈥
The AHA and eight state hospital associations yesterday filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to review a decision by a three-judge panel of the court, which reversed an injunction to prevent a proposed 10% Medicaid payment cut to hospitals and other鈥
Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fellowship facilitor Shawn Foster, this article describes how past fellows are using the tools they learned during the year-long education program to improve patient safety in their facilities.
From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and families to become involved in their care. A new report from the AHA Committee on Research 鈥淓ngaging Health Care Users: A Framework for Healthy Individuals and Communities鈥 presents a鈥
The AHA's framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and families and contemplates the role of hospitals and health care systems in improving the overall health of the population and communities they are serving. Within this context, in 2012 the AHA Board鈥
Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregivers in 100 neonatal intensive care units in nine states鈥攃aring for 8,400 newborn patients鈥攗sed prevention practice checklists and improved communication to prevent an estimated 131 CLABSIs鈥