Andy Stern

Leveraging Technology, Care Delivery, Leveraging Technology

Exploring the benefits of telehealth

Telehealth is changing health care delivery. Through videoconferencing, remote monitoring, electronic consults and wireless communications, telehealth expands patient access while improving patient outcomes and satisfaction. As hospitals and health systems continue to redefine what it means to be a hospital — or to “redefine the H” — telehealth is growing.

Strategic Planning, Issues & Trends

Violence affects us all

Violence impacts every community in America, and no place — including hospitals and health systems — is immune. It affects our patients and their families, the members of our hospital family and the very fabric of our communities.

Delivery System Transformation, Governance Effectiveness, Strategic Planning

Creating a Culture of Health

Population health is a hot topic. But what does it mean in practical terms?

Population health encompasses clinical and nonclinical approaches for improving health, preventing disease and reducing health disparities. It also means creating a society that gives all individuals an equal opportunity to live the healthiest life they can, whatever their ethnic, geographic, racial, socio-economic or physical circumstances may be.

Governance Effectiveness

AHA resources focused on the board

Last year, the American Hospital Association challenged itself to answer this question: “How can we best support good governance in the changing health care environment and reach the widest audience possible?” As a result of extensive study and feedback from the field, the AHA has refocused its trustee education efforts on the emerging challenges in health care, as well as the good governance practices crucial to success and advancing health in every community in America.

Governance Effectiveness

Leadership Summit to offer new opportunities

Health care is constantly changing. At perhaps no time in our history has that been truer as science and technology converge to transform not only how we deliver care but how patients experience it.

How can health care trustees stay on top of these changes and help prepare for those that may lie around the bend? Education and networking are two of the most important tools at our disposal.

Governance Effectiveness

Getting the word out about hospitals

The way that health care is delivered across America is changing. Likewise, hospitals and health systems are redefining themselves to continue to meet the needs of their patients and communities. During this time of transformation, telling the hospital story is more important than ever.

Governance Effectiveness

New trustee services from the AHA

The American Hospital Association recently unveiled a newly refocused set of services for trustees and CEOs specifically designed to support good governance in the changing health care environment and reach the widest hospital and health system audience possible.

This new set of services broadly encompasses four areas:

Delivery System Transformation, Strategic Planning

Ensuring access in vulnerable communities

Millions of Americans living in vulnerable rural and urban communities depend upon their hospital as an important, and often only, source of care. These communities and their hospitals, however, face many challenges. As the hospital field engages in its most significant transformation to date, some communities may be at risk of losing access to health care services. It will be necessary for payers and health care providers to work together to develop strategies that support the preservation of health care services for all Americans.

Governance Effectiveness, Legislation and Legislative Advocacy

A Chance to Meet Your Peers, Stay on Top of the Hospital Field

The 2017 American Hospital Association Annual Membership Meeting offers trustees an excellent opportunity to gain perspectives that will help us continue to advance health in America. The meeting, to be held May 7-10 in Washington, D.C., will feature some of America’s most influential political, policy, opinion and health care leaders, and four special sessions just for hospital and health system trustees.

Governance Effectiveness, Legislation and Legislative Advocacy

Advocacy and the hospital trustee

Throughout the year, the American Hospital Association urges hospital leaders, including trustees, to advocate with their federal legislators on various issues, including protecting patients from cuts to hospital funding, reducing red tape and decreasing the administrative burden on hospitals, and many more.

As a trustee, you are in the best position to help legislators understand all that your hospital does for the community 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and the challenges that you face as you strive to continue to deliver those services.