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Leadership Role of Nonprofit Health Systems in Improving Community Health
Trustee Articles
This report discusses the complex challenges involved in community health improvement and makes the case for why health systems should take a substantial role in the multi-sector collaboration needed to achieve significant impact.
Population Health: Considerations for Hospital and Health System Boards
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An aging population, increasing rates of chronic disease and the onset of value-based payment structures are among the many drivers that have moved hospitals and health systems in recent years to take a more prominent role in disease prevention, health promotion, and other public health initiatives.
Partnering in the New Health Care Environment: 5 Questions for Boards
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Health care is transforming to a value-based model, with the goals of improved care quality, access and outcomes for consumers, at lower costs. The means of achieving these goals is the effective management of health and health care services over the continuum of a population’s care and service needs.
Learnings on Governance from Partnerships that Improve Community Health
Trustee Articles
Hospitals’ and health systems’ accountability and commitment to their communities are not only for the care provided within the organizations’ walls, but also for improving the overall health of the communities they serve. Many are acting on that commitment by striving to achieve the goals of the Triple Aim.
Community Partnership Profiles: Learnings on Governance from Partnerships that Improve Community Health
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Lessons Learned from Foster G. McGaw Prize Recipients Community Partnership Profiles - Advances in Health Care Governance Series
A Foundation for Improving Social Determinants of Health
Trustee Articles
Philanthropy can drive innovative initiatives to address social, economic, educational and quality of life issues in the community.
June 20, 2017 AHA Webinar Series on Ensuring Access to Vulnerable Communities:
In the second of four free webinars, Priya Bathija, AHA Policy reviewed the strategies for the social determinants of health.
Wielding Food As Medicine
Hospitals are focusing on nutrition to care for all needs of their patients, sending them home with prescriptions as well as bags of healthy food.
Arkansas Children’s Hospital’s Social Needs Screener
October 2018—Arkansas Children’s Hospital is advancing the health of its community through its social needs screening tool, which enables the hospital to address food insecurity and other needs like housing, coverage, special education needs and parents' education.