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Advocating for Rural Health Providers

In this episode, three AHA rural health care policy experts discuss the 2023 rural advocacy agenda for Congress and the Administration.
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Applying an Equity Lens to Digital Health

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital solutions, including mobile health apps, patient portals and telehealth serve as a critical access point for health care providers to reach patients.
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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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University of Utah Addresses Health and Social Needs for its Most Complex Patients

Patients with complex medical and social needs are often challenging to treat in a traditional medical encounter.
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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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Rural Hospitals in Peril

Some 46 million rural residents across the U.S. depend on their area hospital as their primary – and often only – source of accessible medical care.
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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 Challenges Confronting Rural Communities, Providers and Their Remedies: A Panel Discussion

In recognition of National Rural Health Day, John Supplitt, Sr. Director, AHA Rural Health Services is joined by four colleagues from AHA each of whom has a unique perspective on pathways to recovery and solutions to the challenges confronting rural health care providers and the communities they serve.
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Leadership Dialogue Series: Peggy Abbott from Ouachita County Medical Center

Recently, the hospital leadership team of Ouachita County Medical Center in Camden, Ark., made the “heart-wrenching decision” to close a rural health clinic that the hospital had operated for 25 years.