Population/Community Health
A new AHA issue brief outlines five actions that hospitals and health systems can take to address housing instability and improve health in their communities during COVID-19.
This issue brief from the ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association highlights housing security as a significant factor in COVID-19 prevention and treatment. It offers five actions that hospitals and health systems can take to address housing instability and improve health in their communities, with links to…
The AHA announced it is honoring five hospital-led partnerships with the AHA Dick Davidson NOVA Award for each program’s efforts to improve community health.
The ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association (AHA) announced that it will honor five programs with the AHA Dick Davidson NOVA Award for their hospital-led collaborative efforts that improve community health.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Newport infections.
All hospitals regardless of ownership provide a comprehensive range of benefits and essential services to their communities. New analysis prepared and released today by the ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association (AHA) shows that tax-exempt hospitals provided $100 billion in total benefits to their…
AHA has tracked the stories of several rural community hospitals as part of our coverage of COVID-19. Those stories and their podcasts may be found on the AHA website. As part of this series we share how rural hospitals have found new ways of delivering care to patients under COVID-19. Today, we…
The Department of Health and Human Services announced the reestablishment of the Ready Reserve Corps, a uniformed services that provides trained and ready personnel available on short notice to fill critical public health needs.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory warning of an uptick over the last year in meningococcal disease in which isolates show the gene associated with penicillin resistance and mutations associated with ciprofloxacin resistance.
Loyola Medicine has maintained a strong partnership with its neighboring communities in Chicago’s near western suburbs. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, this health system-community partnership helped residents in these economically-challenged communities in many ways, including providing nutritious…