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Hospital Partners with Faith-based Group to Vaccinate Muslim Community
Throughout the COVID-19 hospitals and health systems have been forging new partnerships with stakeholders to ensure ongoing care for their patients, health care workers and communities.
Minority Health Month Exclusive: Community-Led Covid Lessons to Overcome Inequity in Health Care
Minority Health Month Exclusive: Community-Led Covid Lessons to Overcome Inequity in Health Care
Building Capacity and Reaching Hardest Hit Communities to Combat COVID-19
On this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Germaine Smith-Baugh, president and CEO of the Urban League of Broward County in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., talks about combating the COVID-19 pandemic through testing, vaccinations and education within the community, which include people hardest hit by the pandemic.
Laboratory Insights Amidst COVID-19
Join us to hear University of Chicago Medicine’s perspective from its medical laboratory as it forged and strengthened a network of support within its health system and across the community it served. Kathleen G. Beavis, MD, FCAP, medical director of University of Chicago Medicine’s microbiology and immunology laboratories and medical director for laboratories’ quality, and Candis Kinkus, MBA, vice president of University of Chicago Medicine’s laboratory services, will discuss their successes and ongoing challenges.
Spotlight Feature: Building Community Connections to Fight Adult Diabetes
Thanks to a health equity grant delivered through a collaboration between the American Hospital Association’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity (IFDHE) and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL), Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago extended free diabetes education services to uninsured and underinsured patients through its accredited, self-management diabetes education program offered by its Diabetes Community Center (DCC).
UnidosUS Alliance Case Study: Saint Anthony Hospital Builds Resiliency Through Community Wellness
The American Hospital Association and UnidosUS work together to highlight the impact of clinical and community partnerships to ensure equitable care for all. The Collaborative for Community Wellness is a Chicago-based collaborative including 22 community-based organizations working together to the ensure the community’s health care needs are met. The Collaborative published a report in 2018 that shared key findings around lack of access to mental health in among predominantly high economic hardship community areas on Chicago’s Southwest side.
HC3 Threat Brief TLP White: Healthcare Information Security Assessment and Auditing, May 28, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated an increase in information collection and sharing among providers, patients, hospitals, vendors and other organizations. In turn, that has heralded an uptick in "malicious cyber campaigns" that attack healthcare facilities, according to U.S. and U.K. law enforcement agencies.
Urge Your Senators and Representatives to Support Hospitals and Health Systems in End-of-Year Legislation
Congress is back in Washington, D.C., and sprinting to the finish line to complete its end-of-the-year work during the “lame-duck” session. Funding for the federal government, as well as other key health care provisions, are set to expire Dec. 11.
Hospital-at-Home
Hospital-at-home enable some patients who need acute-level care to receive care in their homes, rather than in a hospital. This care delivery model has been shown to reduce costs, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience.