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Hospitals Will Always Offer Healing and Hope as We Stand Up Against Violence
As caregivers and healers, hospitals and health systems are the antithesis of violence. They are in the business of treating patients, healing communities and saving lives.
Hospital leaders, others convene to prevent gun violence as a public health emergency
Northwell Health today hosted its fourth annual Gun Violence Prevention Forum to mobilize the collective efforts of executives, clinicians, researchers, survivors and policymakers around preventing gun violence as a public health emergency.
AHA Supports H. Res. 909 Condemning Violence Against Health Care Workers
On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, our clinician partners — including more than 270,000 affiliated physicians, 2 million nurses and other caregivers — and the 43,000 health care leaders who belong to our professional membership groups, the American Hospital Association (AHA) is pleased to support your resolution, H. Res. 909, which condemns violence against health care workers and expresses support for health care personnel.
Human Trafficking Response: Resources for Health Care Professionals
The American Hospital Association’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative joins the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center (NHTTAC) and HEAL Trafficking to provide key resources and information on how hospitals and health systems can combat human trafficking in their communities.
Hospital receives presidential award for innovative approach to caring for human trafficking victims
The Blue Dot Human Trafficking Initiative at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore yesterday received a 2022 Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons for its innovative and holistic approach to the care and well-being of human trafficking victims.
Reducing Excess Days Initiative
Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals within the RHC system and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services geometric mean assigned to the MS-DRG. This case study is part of the Illinois Hospital Association's annual quality awards.
Kaiser Permanente commits $25M to center for gun violence injury prevention
Kaiser Permanente, an integrated health care provider based in California, yesterday committed $25 million over five years to expand its recently established center to prevent gun injuries and death through care innovation, research, education and partnership.
Hospitals Against Violence News
The Hospitals Against Violence Initiative (HAV) is sharing examples and best practices with the field, with a particular emphasis on youth violence prevention, workplace violence prevention and combating human trafficking. Explore this page for the latest news and events pertaining to effective prevention strategies and program development on national, state and local levels to help end violence in our communities and to help hospital employees cope with the impact of violence, whether at home, on the job or in their neighborhoods.
Protecting our people from workplace violence
Saturday’s senseless violence at Methodist Dallas Medical Center that took the lives of two health care workers has stunned the health care community across the country.
What you need to know about forced labor in health care supply chain and services
The AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative, Jones Day and HEAL Trafficking (Health, Education, Advocacy, Linkage) recently hosted a special convening, Forced Labor in Health Care Supply Chains: What Hospital Leaders Need to Know, to provide practical information and resources to health care providers.