Care Delivery
Millions of Americans in both urban and rural communities are unable to access essential health care services. A new report from the American Hospital Association, Task Force on Ensuring Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities, offers nine innovative ways to improve access for vulnerable…
Below is an excerpted version of the conversation between H&HN’s Lindsey Dunn and Stacey Jenson, RN, senior vice president of partnership operations at Healthways. To listen to the entire discussion, click on the audio player above.
Governance
AHA seeks to strengthen services for trustees
The American Hospital Association board of trustees in July approved a plan to strengthen the AHA’s role in supporting good governance in a changing health care environment. The plan is intended to broaden opportunities for…
Trustee talking points
Three percent of patients admitted to children’s hospitals are at least 18 years old, and trends indicate that their numbers will only grow.
As these children with once-fatal diagnoses such as congenital heart disease survive well into adulthood, a treatment…
By now, you, as a hospital board member, are familiar with three terms that are driving much of the transformation underway in our field: value-based care, population health management and the continuum of care. To achieve the goal of improving the quality of the services our organizations…
Trustee talking points
Collaboratives or alliances of neighboring health systems are an alternative to formal consolidation.
They provide a way for systems to gain efficiencies of scale without losing independence through a merger.
Population Health
Helping hospitals create community partnerships
A new guide from the American Hospital Association’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative highlights promising practices for creating effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships to build a culture…
If they didn’t know it already, members of the hospital field’s C-suites do now: Keeping health care data out of the hands of cybercriminals is harder than ever.
Thanks to stories in recent months about the escalation in the types of acts criminals will take to profit from stealing…