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Chair File: Local Coalition Designs a Healthy Community

Partnering—not competing—with other health organizations is how many hospitals are working to improve traditional medical care.
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Hospitals Continue Efforts to Help Realize Dr. King’s Dream

Hospitals and health systems have a special role to play in helping to realize Dr. King’s dream of a truly just society.
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Chair File: Community Partners Identify Needs and Lead Change

Community health initiatives that start with small successes can lead to bigger changes. St.
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Chair File: Working to Create Age-Friendly Health Systems

There were 54 million U.S. residents 65 or older in 2019, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The agency projects that number will grow by nearly 30 million (to 84 million) by 2050. 
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Making the Case for Additional Federal Support for Hospitals

After Election Day, lawmakers will return to Washington to consider many important issues, including funding the government, the annual must-pass defense bill, hurricane aid, election reform and tax extenders.
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Protecting our people from workplace violence

Saturday’s senseless violence at Methodist Dallas Medical Center that took the lives of two health care workers has stunned the health care community across the country.
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Chair File: Building Age-Friendly Health Systems to Improve Care for Older Adults

Back in 2011, the first wave of Baby Boomers — people born from 1946 to 1964 — celebrated their 65th birthday. That marked a new demographic trend: the aging of the U.S. population.
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What COVID-19 Continues to Teach Us about Hospital Culture

Situated in the heart of Westchester County and just outside of New York City, White Plains Hospital was among the first hospitals in New York to face the COVID-19 pandemic during the early days of 2020, back when there were many unknowns.
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Chairman’s File: Creating age-friendly health systems

We must all prepare ourselves to make care better and friendlier for older adults, and the Age-Friendly Action Community is a great step in that direction. 
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Blog: Irresponsible rhetoric should not drive public policy

The AHA has previously noted the third party observers who demonstrate a tenuous grasp of the data and rules regarding federal hospital transparency requirements.