Chairperson's File
Blog posts from 2024 AHA Board Chair Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., CEO and president of Dartmouth Health, and past chairs.
By 're-engineering'discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chester, Penn., has halved its readmission rate for congestive heart failure patients. 'We think of the discharge process as bundled processes of care beginning with admission,' says Carli Meister, R.N.,…
Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in Madison, Wis., has used the Baldrige National Quality framework. The hospital board's quality of health care committee sets quality aims that include targeting zero health care-associated infections…
Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., describes an innovative program to improve the health of the community it serves in southern Broward County. Memorial's Health Intervention with Targeted Services (HITS) program also aims to reduce…
Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Regional Medical Center, Salisbury, NC, has developed a disease management program aimed at reducing readmissions. Work started with the Igloo initiative at RRMC and has expanded to a project funded…
May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Office of Women's Health. This celebration provides an opportunity to highlight how you can use this website to focus on a specific patient population like women or a specific topic area like…
Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community with clinical interventions at the local level. About three years ago, the Alliance decided to focus on population health. Billings Clinic, a not-for-profit health care organization based in Billings, Mont…
For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering problems and even amputation. The patient community in the rural area served by Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center, Ogdensburg, N.Y., has a high incidence of diabetes and obesity, which can cause a high rate of…
Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its community in relation to its workforce and care delivery. In 2001, the executive team at the 578-bed acute care system in Anderson, South Carolina, formalized a commitment to diversity. The health…
Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson participated in Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This initiative aimed to improve quality of cardiac…
How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Madras, Ore., can count the 1,660 pounds that participants collectively lost in Movin? Mountains Health Challenge 2010. MVH serves a diverse, rural and somewhat economically…