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Partnering in the New Health Care Environment: 5 Questions for Boards
Trustee Articles
Health care is transforming to a value-based model, with the goals of improved care quality, access and outcomes for consumers, at lower costs. The means of achieving these goals is the effective management of health and health care services over the continuum of a population’s care and service needs.
How to Improve the Patients ED Experience
One of the first — and sometimes only — place patients experience a hospital is the emergency department, where many first and lasting impressions are made.
Population Health: Considerations for Hospital and Health System Boards
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An aging population, increasing rates of chronic disease and the onset of value-based payment structures are among the many drivers that have moved hospitals and health systems in recent years to take a more prominent role in disease prevention, health promotion, and other public health initiatives.
Learnings on Governance from Partnerships that Improve Community Health
Trustee Articles
Hospitals’ and health systems’ accountability and commitment to their communities are not only for the care provided within the organizations’ walls, but also for improving the overall health of the communities they serve. Many are acting on that commitment by striving to achieve the goals of the Triple Aim.
The healing arts
Imagine a care setting in which psychiatric patients can move to music with guidance from a principal dancer in a ballet company; in which a cellist plays in outpatient waiting rooms, distracting t
Hospital program gives wings to community
In the first months of 2015, Erie, Pa., experienced an uptick in violence, drug-related crimes and murders.
Incoming AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack Sees the Big Picture
Snapshot
The American Hospital Association’s incoming president and CEO says that successful advocacy isn’t just about lobbying on Capitol Hill.
A Foundation for Improving Social Determinants of Health
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Philanthropy can drive innovative initiatives to address social, economic, educational and quality of life issues in the community.
Hospital studies self-care program, with positive results
When leaders at Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas launched a novel program for administering long-term antibiotics to Parkland Memorial Hospital patients, they were seeking to address