Population/Community Health
AHA Vice President for Clinical Quality Marie Cleary-Fishman describes how asking 鈥淲hat Matters鈥 helps to develop genuine partnerships for co-creating health.
Community health workers can become crucial links between hospitals and health systems and the communities they serve, helping patients overcome barriers to care. Read examples from a recent workshop, and view a resource developed by the AHA and National Urban League to help hospitals and health鈥
Ashley Thompson, AHA senior vice president of public policy analysis and development, shares some ways AHA is engaged in advocacy and public policy efforts to support national strategies and provide resources to advance community health.
On this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Nancy Myers, vice president of leadership and system innovation for the AHA Center for Health Innovation, and Duane Reynolds, president and CEO of the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, discuss health equity and its relationship to community health.
Hospitals and health systems foster the development of healthy life all around them.
They are caregivers foremost 鈥 working tirelessly to advance the cause of good health for patients and communities. They are economic anchors 鈥 providing jobs and partnering with businesses to bolster the local鈥
The Department of Population Science and Policy, in collaboration with Hillsboro Community Child Development Center staff, created the Little Leaps program with the goals to foster interaction in families, develop awareness around brain development linked to activity and interaction, provide a鈥
When the Sisters of St. Joseph were founded in 1650, Fr. Medaille asked the original Sisters to go into their neighborhoods, identify the needs of the poor and work with partners to meet them. Over the past two decades, St. Jude Medical Center has carried on this heritage by helping to start and鈥
Children鈥檚 National Health System, a pediatric health system in Washington, D.C, celebrated Community Health Improvement Week by engaging the community and recognizing the professionals and partnerships dedicated to improving community health.
The AHA will kick off Community Health Improvement Week with a free webinar Monday at 4 p.m. ET on Creating a Culture of Population Health.
In this AHA Stat Blog, Nancy Myers, AHA vice president of leadership and system innovation, highlights resources and tools to assist hospitals and health systems with their population health efforts.