AHA Center for Health Innovation
The resurgence of COVID-19 has left health care leaders with one eye focused on recovery and financial viability and the other on the resiliency of front-line caregivers, many of whom have lasting effects from what they experienced during the initial waves of COVID-19.
A new issue brief from AHA鈥檚 Value Initiative, 鈥淭eam-based Care Creates Value,鈥 examines this low-tech approach that allows health care workers from various professional disciplines to provide customized, patient-centered care to manage the physical, psychological and spiritual needs of patients.
This new benefit for AHA members will make it easier for you to monitor your performance over time and connect with others. Take your assessment and join the growing digital health community.
The CDI Prevention Collaborative is a rigorous national change effort working to develop, test and implement sustainable and scalable best practices to reduce C. difficile infections.
Three leadership capabilities consistently rise to the top when Andy Shin, chief operating officer for the AHA鈥檚 Center for Health Innovation, interviews hospital and health system leaders navigating the pandemic.
Leadership in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic has had many faces 鈥 organizationally, in the community, at the bedside. During any crisis, leaders learn and adapt on their feet. But when there鈥檚 time to reflect, leaders learn even more about decisions that worked and those that didn鈥檛, and about鈥
A report highlighting key findings from STRIVE (States Targeting Reduction in Infections via Engagement) - a national initiative funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and aimed at improving infection control practices and strengthening health care-associated infection鈥
- Health Care Facility Management
- Performance improvement
- Planning, Design, and Construction
- Antibiotic Stewardship
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Hospital Acquired Condition (HAC)
- Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI)
- Clostridium difficile (C. diff) Infection (CDI)
- Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI)
- Multi-Drug Resistant Organism (MDRO)
- AHA Center for Health Innovation
AHA is partnering with the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and asking hospital and health system leaders to reexamine their approach to palliative care, identify patients needing additional support and build a care plan centered on the whole patient, both clinical and emotional needs.
Check out these stories of real people living with a serious illness and benefitting from palliative care.
Walmart鈥檚 strategy is simple: Find ways to help customers save money and live better. With its ever-expanding reach into health care, however, Walmart has entered a new phase by becoming a licensed health insurance broker in an effort to forge stronger bonds with millions of consumers.