Operational Excellence

Population health leaders come from multiple sectors and professions, but we share a common goal: to advance well-being and health equity for individuals and communities. At the 2019 ACHI National Conference, we will come together as a community of population health leaders to amplify our shared…
AHA Team Training strives to make teams of experts into expert teams. Using a variety of approaches, we support change initiatives to help educate, convene, and shape health care organizations to provide safer team-based care.
The AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering presented its 2018 Excellence in Health Care Facility Management Award to NewYork-Presbyterian for its water safety management program.
The AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering has released a playbook to help health care facilities create a capital renewal program to identify, prioritize and execute maintenance projects. “Allocating capital funding to maintenance projects is a continual challenge for health care…
Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health and GE Healthcare are partnering in a five-year, risk-sharing program designed to achieve $1 billion in savings and improved patient care across the 14-hospital system.
We now offer podcasts with AHA members who are using these strategies to improve quality and decrease health care costs. You also can access the case study profiles on our Members in Action landing page.
This fall, more than 500 health care professionals with a stake in the environment of care will gather to address these changes in Columbus, Ohio from Sept. 23-26 for the annual EXCHANGE Conference & Solution Center – a program of AHA’s Association for the Health Care Environment. 
An Innovative Way to Manage Radiation Dose Compliance Across Your Enterprise Carondelet Health Network Achieved Time and Cost Efficiencies    
We previously raised concerns about the most recent “The Price Ain’t Right” study by a group of academic economists that attempted to link hospital co
Watch the video AHA Chair Nancy Howell Agee yesterday said that the health care field needs “to transform” and “find ways to deliver care that provides value and is affordable.” In her investiture address at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting, Agee spoke about the AHA’s Value Initiative and…