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Improving the Patient and Family Experience
The AHA’s new resource “Patient and Family Advisory Councils Blueprint” outlines seven steps to successfully launch a meaningful and impactful PFAC.
Overseeing Health Equity in the Age of Emerging Risk
Incorporating health equity into strategy represents a new undertaking for some health care leaders — one that requires a shift in thinking and taking action in such core areas as culture, structure, functions and incentives.
A New Framework for Working with Patient and Family Advisers
Boards have a keen interest in quality, and they are helping their hospitals and systems to implement a variety of improvement strategies.
Making Community Health Improvement the Heart and Soul of Governance
Trustee Articles
Continually improving community health should be part of the DNA of a health care organization and its board.
Combes to Retire as CHG President in Fall
John Combes, M.D., president of the American Hospital Association’s Center for Healthcare Governance and the AHA’s chief medical officer and senior vice president, will retire in Octo
Population Health: Board Discussion Questions
Discussion Questions & Templates
Hospital and health system boards and leadership can advance their understanding of population health and how population health management fits into organizational priorities by considering the following questions.
Leadership Role of Nonprofit Health Systems in Improving Community Health
Trustee Articles
This report discusses the complex challenges involved in community health improvement and makes the case for why health systems should take a substantial role in the multi-sector collaboration needed to achieve significant impact.
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.
Population Health: Considerations for Hospital and Health System Boards
Trustee Articles
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.
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.