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3 Ways to Expand Community, Patient Engagement
Advisory councils or boards can play an integral role in engaging the voice of the patient to help shape changes from providers and health plans. But some organizations are going a step further.
Boston Medical Center’s 5 Steps to Better Community Health
The AHA awarded the Foster G. McGaw Prize to Boston Medical Center (BMC) Health System for its achievements in improving access to high-quality health care — particularly for underserved areas — and developing innovative partnerships with community organizations.
How to Improve Communications on Generative AI
Two-thirds of consumers think generative AI could reduce extended wait times for physician appointments, notes a recent Deloitte report. Yet despite that optimism, consumer adoption of generative AI for health reasons has remained essentially flat over the past year, with only 37% of respondents using it.
4 Keys to Accelerate Health Equity
Professionals focused on improving community and population health and building partnerships, and those striving to advance diversity and inclusion within hospital management and executive levels recently convened at the third annual AHA Accelerating Health Equity Conference.
Retail Clinics Target Chronic Diseases
Retail health clinics are growing not only in number but in scope of services delivered. But so far, these outlets primarily are located in higher-income communities ringing urban areas with large populations while rural and underserved communities remain largely out of the picture.
4 Strategies to Drive Health-Equity Success
Innovative community-centered partnerships and creative investment strategies can mitigate health disparities that adversely affect excluded or marginalized groups. And many health systems are using these approaches to achieve powerful results, notes a recent NEJM Catalyst analysis.
Transforming Care: Why Leaders Need to Be Radically Collaborative
Tracy Duberman, PhD, founder and president of The Leadership Development Group, led participants through an analysis of attributes today’s health care executives need to drive transformational change and the strategic priorities on which they must focus.
6 Imperatives to Improving Behavioral Health Access
A new AHA Executive Summary, “Regional Networks: Improving Access to Behavioral Health Services,” provides insights for communities that want to improve access to behavioral health services through community partnerships. The report assesses key elements for building and maintaining a successful regional behavioral health network.
3 Keys to Meet Individuals’ Health and Social Needs
UnitedHealthcare launched Community Catalyst, an initiative that includes 23 programs involving collaborations with community-based organizations and health centers. Community Catalyst’s goal will be to close gaps in care and address health equity issues, food insecurity among seniors and the health needs of those in public housing.
Blue Cross Blue Shield NC Pilot Programs Address Food Insecurity
In an indication that it will be targeting social determinants of health (SDOH), Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina will begin piloting programs to address food insecurity. The payer is partnering with several state organizations and food banks to boost enrollment in the Food and Nutrition Services and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.