Community Partnerships
The 黑料正能量 Association and UnidosUS formed an alliance to build healthy, equitable and resilient communities. Both of our organizations understand that it is critical that hospital and health systems鈥 leadership reflect the growing diversity of their patients and staff 鈥 and of our鈥
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
In 2014, a group of stakeholders in Kansas City 鈥 including representatives from law enforcement, hospitals, courts, city government, mental health, and homeless shelters 鈥 started convening monthly to determine how to provide appropriate help to individuals with behavioral health issues who don鈥檛鈥
To achieve health equity, all of us鈥攈ospitals and health systems, allied hospital associations, and local, state and national stakeholders鈥攚ill need to partner and prioritize the work that improves the health of our communities.
Seventy-one percent of respondents predict that, over the next five years, their organization will increase collaboration with other providers and payers on population health management as a strategy to improve clinical outcomes.
Learn how five local hospital systems created a course to train people to perform "adult mental health first aid," giving members of the public skills to help someone who is developing or experiencing a mental health crisis
Story on the 2018 AHA NOVA Award winners
Detroit Medical Center 鈥 Sinai-Grace Hospital | Detroit, MI
Detroit Life is Valuable Everyday (DLIVE) was created to address a significant medical issue in its community: Homicide is the number one cause of death for Detroit residents ages 15 to 34, and violent injury recurrence rates have been鈥
Tenderloin Health Improvement Partnership: The Push to Advance Health and Safety in the Tenderloin - Printable PDFs