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Fall intervention prevention results in hospital savings

An academic medical center used an evidence-based tool to reduce its fall count and fall rate by 23%, and its fall with injury count and rate by 40%, resulting in savings of $982,700.

California plans to cut pregnancy-related deaths in half by 2026

An educational campaign targeting patients and health providers on factors contributing to pregnancy-related deaths aims to cut maternal mortality in California in half by 2026.

Maternity care deserts grow in 2024

Hospital closures and obstetric service reductions have resulted in more than 5.5 million women living in counties with no or limited access to maternity care services, a March of Dimes report found.

AHA podcast highlights equity award winners

An American Hospital Association podcast features the 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award winners.

Houston Methodist Willowbrook TeamSTEPPS Success Story

To address preventable obstetric issues, Houston Methodist strengthens protocols with simulation training and communication tools like TeamSTEPPS.

Hospitals are safer post-pandemic, AHA analysis shows

Hospitalized patients in the first quarter of 2024 were on average over 20% more likely to survive a stay compared with the fourth quarter of 2019, an American Hospital Association report found.

HRSA awards $19 million to grow nursing workforce

The Health Resources and Services Administration awarded $19 million over four years to five schools to increase the number of nurses practicing in rural and underserved acute care settings and long-term care facilities.

Case study highlights Equity of Care Award winner Main Line Health’s data collection efforts 

Main Line Health’s strategic collection and utilization of data, as well as its initiatives to improve the health of communities of color, earned the health system the AHA’s 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award in the Transforming Category.

HHS study to leverage nursing’s knowledge to improve AI

The Department of Health and Human Services this week awarded a grant to the trustees of Columbia University, New York City, for a study seeking to harness nursing’s knowledge to capture systematically the nuances of nursing data to improve artificial intelligence.

AHA participates in Newsweek panel on AI and physician burnout 

Chris DeRienzo, M.D., AHA chief physician executive and senior vice president, participated Sept. 17 in a Newsweek event on physician burnout and how artificial intelligence impacts the issue. DeRienzo was the introductory speaker for the session, where he discussed his work meeting with hospital and health system executives and clinicians across the country, saying that workforce issues are a common theme in conversations.