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#JustLead featuring Cheshire Medical Center

Welcome to the American Hospital Association’s new podcast series #JustLead, which highlights how hospitals and health systems that have been recognized with AHA Awards for innovation, collaboration, and health equity, are transforming health care for their communities.
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Behavioral Health Success Part 2: Using a Historic Waiver to Expand CAH Psychiatric Beds

Rural America is in crisis. A spike in suicides and deaths by substance abuse has strained communities already struggling with a lack of clinical and inpatient resources.
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Behavioral Health Success Part 1: Combating a Suicide Surge Through Rural Community Collaboration

Rural America is in crisis. A spike in suicides and deaths by substance abuse has strained communities already struggling with a lack of clinical and inpatient resources. But there is hope.
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[Special Edition] How Prior Authorizations Can Harm Patient Care

In medical care, prior authorization was originally intended to ensure patients received appropriate care that was in line with tested methodologies.
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Partnering with Area Agencies on Aging: Tactics for Success

As the US population continues to age, leaders at hospitals and health systems are increasingly partnering with community-based organizations to address the social and non-medical health needs of older individuals, including nutrition and transportation assistance, social connection, and caregiver support.
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The Power of Opioid Prevention and Treatment Series: Measuring Opioid Stewardship

Hospitals and health systems must be clear on goals of their opioid stewardship program and intentional about a process for measuring and monitoring progress.
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The Power of Opioid Prevention and Treatment Series: Mastering Opioid Stewardship Deployment

America has seen soaring rates of fatal overdoses from opioid analgesics – that is prescription drugs such as oxycodone, hydrocodone and fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is often produced and sold illegally.
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The Power of Opioid Prevention and Treatment Series: Opioid Stewardship Program Construction 101

The opioid crisis has been around for decades and has progressively worsen during the pandemic.
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Opioid Stewardship and Substance Disorders

In this episode, Marie Cleary-Fishman, vice president of clinical quality at the AHA Center for Health Innovation is joined by Dr. Holly Geyer, internal medicine practitioner at the Mayo Clinic, to discuss opioid stewardship and resources the AHA has developed to offer guidance and information to hospitals and health systems on how they can partner with patients, clinicians and communities to address the opioid epidemic.
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The Power of Opioid Prevention and Treatment Series: Starting your opioid stewardship journey

During the past two years, the health care field has been focused on fighting COVID-19…as it should be. Yet at the same time, another crisis surges.