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Blog: New website, interactive modules aim to reduce OUD stigma

Stigma leads to discrimination and creates barriers for people to seek treatment and access care, write Richard Bottner, a physician assistant and affiliate faculty member at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, and Rebecca Chickey, AHA’s senior director of Behavioral Health Services. Read this first article in a series about reducing stigma to learn about a new website and training focused specifically on substance and opioid use disorder stigma.
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Community Health as a Strategic Asset for Redesigning Care Delivery and Accelerating Health Equity

There is now consensus about what health care leaders and practitioners have long known: The conditions in which people live are major drivers of health and well-being.
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How Mayo Clinic Hospital Has Built Authentic Partnerships to Assess and Address Community Health Needs

The Mayo Clinic Hospital in Arizona is a tertiary referral care hospital. Community hospitals that have patients who have complex health needs and who need specialty care send those patients to us. Through community partnerships — including with local health departments and community-based organizations — all stakeholders can come together to strengthen the health of the populations we serve better than we could do apart.
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ProMedica’s Catalyst for Improving Health in Urban and Rural Communities

By taking a holistic approach and addressing the social determinants of health, ProMedica is working to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan.
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Chair File: Connecting and Collaborating to Advance Health Equity and Improve Community Health

Advancing health equity must be of utmost importance for all of us working in hospitals and health systems.
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Chair File: Connecting, Learning and Collaborating to Advance Health in America

Communication. Teamwork. Unity. That’s what helps drive health care innovation, accelerates health equity, improves health outcomes and advances health in our communities.
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Chair File: The Incredible Impact of Hospitals in Our Communities

People visit hospitals to receive care for injuries or diseases or undergo needed medical procedures and surgeries.
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Chair File: Bridging the Sectors to Improve Health of Individuals and Communities

Hospital and health system teams today not only are caring for one patient at a time but also improving the health of their communities.