Population/Community Health
Empowering front-line staff in performance improvement efforts is key to moving this work forward. Health care leaders discuss ways to achieve this, including modeling behavior, coaching, providing support and ensuring everyone on the team is moving in the same direction.
C-suite leaders and board members are anchors in performance improvement work.
Fourteen hospitals and health systems today pledged to commit more than $700 million to address social determinant of health needs in their communities as part of the Healthcare Anchor Network.
Trinity Health’s Transforming Communities Initiative employs policy, system and environmental strategies to improve health. Read more about the 2019 AHA NOVA Award winner.
The concept of age-friendly health systems resonates with most older patients and their caregivers, especially patients with multiple chronic conditions, according to a survey by WebMD released today by the John A. Hartford Foundation.
Collaboration between health care delivery, public health and diverse community-based organizations is essential to building healthier communities. That’s why AHA joined forces with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Association of County and City Health Officials…
In this AHA Stat Blog, Froedtert Health Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer Andres Gonzalez, a board member at the AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, shares the Milwaukee-based organization’s strategies for enhancing health equity, diversity and inclusion.
So what is palliative care? It’s specialized medical care for people living with a serious illness. And, it’s based on the needs of the patient, not on the patient’s prognosis. In today’s health care environment, more and more hospitals and health systems are forming and training multidisciplinary…
As consumerism and population health management continue to take hold in health care, the demand and need for health data transparency and sharing will continue to grow. Patients will want more data and information on their health status from providers. And, they will want it in a usable format,…
The suicide rate jumped 56% for Americans aged 10 to 24 between 2007 and 2017, and the homicide rate jumped 18% between 2014 and 2017 for the same population.