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Working Towards Health Equity in the Rural Space
08/18/2023
Health equity is a discussion that is often framed only around race, but it means so much more.
AWS’ Latest Accelerator Aims to Give a Boost to Health-Equity Startups
06/07/2022
Roundtrip’s continuing development can be traced in part to AWS’ Health Equity Initiative, a three-year $40 million commitment to help its health care customers develop cloud-based solutions to reduce health disparities.
Community Collaboration for Solutions
02/06/2022
Advancing health equity and fostering healthy communities by investing in strong hospital-community partnerships.
Place-Based Investing: Creating Sustainable Returns and Strong Communities Infographic
01/25/2022
This infographic provides a quick overview of how place-based investing can create sustainable returns and strong communities. The graphic showcases a holistic capital approach in action.
Strengthening the Enabling Environment
01/25/2022
This is the third resource in the Capital Absorption Framework series on communities; this brief looks at the enabling environment where community investment deals are created and how to strengthen this environment.
Analyzing, Building, and Executing a Pipeline
01/25/2022
This is the second resource in the Capital Absorption Framework series on communities; this brief defines a pipeline while exploring why pipelines are important for expanding the community investment system.
Defining Shared Priorities
01/25/2022
This is the first in the Capital Absorption Framework series on communities. This first brief discusses identifying shared priorities between communities to aid in investment.
Why Community Investment?
01/25/2022
This toolkit, developed in collaboration with the Catholic Health Association, is designed to help health care organizations look at their resources in a different light, expand their efforts to support their communities, and maximize their impact on community health by harnessing the power of their investment capital.
Place-Based Investing: Creating Sustainable Returns and Strong Communities
01/25/2022
This toolkit outlines a range of strategies for how health systems are using their investment assets to help address the resource gaps that keep communities from achieving better health and well-being.
Investment Strategy for Community Health
01/25/2022
This toolkit, developed in collaboration with the Catholic Health Association, is designed to help health care organizations look at their resources in a different light, expand their efforts to support their communities, and maximize their impact on community health by harnessing the power of their investment capital.
Engaging People with Lived/Living Experience: A Guide for Including People in Poverty Reduction
01/25/2022
Multi-sectoral collaboration between governments, businesses, non-profit organizations, and people with lived/living experience of poverty has been recognized as a core principle of effective poverty-reduction work since the establishment of Vibrant Communities in 2002. This guide seeks to further support the inclusion of these diverse voices as an integral part of reducing and eliminating poverty.
Community Collaboration for Solutions: Transforming Transformation Action Planner
01/21/2022
Action Planning is a critical step in collectively advancing equity and dismantling structural barriers (e.g., racism, sexism, ageism, etc.) in hospitals and health care systems. This Transformation Action Planner is for hospitals at Transforming on the Community Collaboration for Solutions continuum.
Community Collaboration for Solutions: Affirming Transformation Action Planner
01/21/2022
Action Planning is a critical step in collectively advancing equity and dismantling structural barriers (e.g., racism, sexism, ageism, etc.) in hospitals and health care systems. This Transformation Action Planner is for hospitals at Affirming on the Community Collaboration for Solutions continuum.
Community Collaboration for Solutions: Immersing Transformation Action Planner
01/21/2022
Action Planning is a critical step in collectively advancing equity and dismantling structural barriers (e.g., racism, sexism, ageism, etc.) in hospitals and health care systems. This Transformation Action Planner is for hospitals at Immersing on the Community Collaboration for Solutions continuum.
Community Collaboration for Solutions: Committing Transformation Action Planner
01/21/2022
Action Planning is a critical step in collectively advancing equity and dismantling structural barriers (e.g., racism, sexism, ageism, etc.) in hospitals and health care systems. This Transformation Action Planner is for hospitals at Committing on the Community Collaboration for Solutions continuum.
Community Collaboration for Solutions: Exploring Transformation Action Planner
01/21/2022
Action Planning is a critical step in collectively advancing equity and dismantling structural barriers (e.g., racism, sexism, ageism, etc.) in hospitals and health care systems. This Transformation Action Planner is for hospitals at Exploring on the Community Collaboration for Solutions continuum.
Key Strategies: Connecting Investments to Communities
01/12/2022
This toolkit looks at place-based investment strategies, with an integrated capital approach, which create positive community impacts traditionally overlooked.
Addressing Societal Factors that Influence Health Presentation
09/15/2021
Social determinants of health – where we live, work and play – have tremendous affect on one’s health, and they can affect anyone, regardless of age, race, ethnicity. Help your organization and community better understand how social determinants impact your patients and neighbors as well as what hospitals are doing to address this important aspect of health, and what resources AHA has to help you further tackle related challenges including food insecurity and lack of transportation.
PRAPARE Implementation and Action Toolkit
09/15/2021
The Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients’ Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE) Implementation and Action Toolkit is designed to provide interested users with the resources, best practices, and lessons learned to guide implementation, data collection, and responses to social determinant needs.
Powering Change: Building Healthy, Equitable Communities Together
09/10/2021
A concise yet resource-rich learning journey to support a successful, sustainable multi-sector collaborative.
Partnership Assessment Tool for Health
09/10/2021
The tool provides an approachable format to understand progress toward benchmarks characteristic of effective partnerships, to identify areas for further development, and guide strategic conversation between partners.
Building Effective Health System-Community Partnerships: Lessons from the Field
09/09/2021
Considerations for health care organizations and government entities seeking to build effective partnerships with the individuals and communities they serve to better address their health and social needs.
Financing Community Health: Unlocking Investments to Address SDOH
10/15/2019
In this webinar, the Center for Community Investment will share the basics about capital investment and how hospitals and health systems can leverage their existing resources for greater impact on health in their communities.
Inclusive, Local Hiring: Building the Pipeline to a Healthy Community
04/25/2018
ACHI and the AHA Workforce Center hosted a webinar on how health systems can develop an inclusive, local hiring pipeline through creating more external community connections and internal career paths.
Does Your Hospital Reflect the Community It Serves?
02/08/2018
This toolkit provides checklists to assess the organization's diversity (inclusing leadership), workforce diversity, and patient care while providing action steps to move toward being a more diverse organization. The toolkit also provides case studies of various hospitals who took initatives toward becoming more diverse and their outcomes.