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The Hospital Community Cooperative (HCC) | Center
The Hospital Community Collaborative provides resources to hospitals and community organizations seeking to collaborate to accelerate health equity.
Inpatient Psychiatric Facility PPS Proposed Rule for FY 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) April 4 issued its fiscal year (FY) 2024
Social Determinants of Health Series: Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Help hospital and health care leaders encourage positive health behaviors in patients and communities.
Social Determinants of Health
The AHA is working to support hospitals and health systems as they address social determinants of health, eliminate health care disparities and provide comprehensive care to every patient in every community—all of which improve community health.
Going Beyond REaL Data Collection: Collecting Social Determinants of Health
This joint webinar between HPOE and the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital discusses strategies and approaches implemented by hospitals and health care systems to collect the social determinants of health, with the understanding that this information will be critical for population health efforts of health plans, hospitals and health centers nationwide.
Get Inspired to Improve Community Health | Center
It’s Community Health Improvement Week (Chi-week). Share your ideas, hopes and dreams for a nation where all people can enjoy healthy lives.
AHA Expresses Support for H.R. 4387, the Maternal Health Quality Improvement Act
In a letter to Representatives Robin L. Kelly and Larry Bucshon, the AHA express support for H.R. 4387, the Maternal Health Quality Improvement Act.
AHA Letter to ONC on Efforts to Standardize Social Determinants of Health Data in EHRs
The AHA supports adding data classes and elements to future versions of the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability to capture standardized data on social determinants of health, but suggests prioritizing technical infrastructure development, incorporating lessons learned and continuing investments in real-world testing, the association told the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology yesterday.
Issue Brief: Improving Health Equity Through Medical-Legal Partnerships
The American Hospital Association issue brief “Improving Health Equity Through Medical-Legal Partnerships” discusses how such partnerships are supporting vulnerable populations and improving individual well-being and community health, and highlights case examples and resources.
Making the Case for Hospitals to Invest in Housing
Improving the health of individuals—and their neighborhoods and communities as a whole—is one of the most complex and pressing challenges in health care today. Given the inextricable link between affordable, quality housing and good health, housing is one area that hospitals and health systems are starting to focus on more and more. A new initiative, Accelerating Investments for Healthy Communities, led by the Center for Community Investment, is helping hospitals refine their community investment strategies around affordable housing. The American Hospital Association and NORC at the University of Chicago are partnering to learn from the journeys of participating hospitals and sharing initial findings in this issue brief, Making the Case for Hospitals to Invest in Housing.