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Boards can be safety champions

Trustee talking points Patient safety is essential for hospitals and health systems, and it should be a strategic priority. Boards need to be informed about and engaged i

Making Sense of Hospital Quality Ratings

Every day, it seems that a new hospital quality scorecard is released, sparking news stories about how hospitals compare with one another and against nationwide benchmarks.

The Board’s Role in Advancing Healthier, More Equitable Communities

Hospital and health system board members play a critical role in prioritizing, understanding and collaborating to improve health equity.

Facility Design Optimizes Health Care Access

While we were finishing up this issue of the magazine, Jonathan Perlin, M.D., the chair of the American Hospital Association’s board of trustees, and president of clinical services and chief

The 8 types of ambulatory care settings

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Investing in Innovation to Disrupt Health Cares Status Quo

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Mental illness and acute care

For a long time, behavioral health patients have been marginalized in the nation’s health care system.

3 Ways Hospitals Are Improving Behavioral Health Care

Snapshot Years of deep cuts to mental health care services have left ill-equipped hospital emergency departments struggling to care for untreated patients.

The High-Reliability Journey Starts with Transparency

The first step on the high-reliability journey is a commitment to transparency within the organization and with patients and family members.

Hospitals step up efforts to fight opioid abuse epidemic

Trustee Talking Points Trustee Talking Points Misuse of prescription opioids is reaching