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5 Actions to Promote Housing Access During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
This issue brief from the American Hospital Association highlights housing security as a significant factor in COVID-19 prevention and treatment. It offers five actions that hospitals and health systems can take to address housing instability and improve health in their communities, with links to case examples and additional resources.
Health Care Faces Financial Challenges During the Pandemic
COVID-19 continues to spread throughout much of the country. Many states are experiencing spikes in cases. Media outlets report a daily total of confirmed cases, hospitalizations and deaths from the virus. But the financial havoc the pandemic is wreaking on hospital and health system finances is only beginning to be understood.
Intermountain Healthcare CEO Shares Takeaways from COVID-19
For all the challenges that COVID-19 has presented, the pandemic also has created significant learning opportunities. Every day, provider organizations are innovating, forging and expanding partnerships, finding better ways to better communicate internally and externally and identifying ways to optimize supply chain management.
‘Automated Hovering’ App Helps Manage COVID-19 Patients at Home
Monitoring confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients at home and remaining in regular contact can be a challenge, but the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) has come up with an automated text messaging system that has been working effectively.
Case Study: Building an Age-Friendly Health System and Community Aligned with Strategic Priorities
Leaders of Rush University Health System (RUSH) in Chicago began implementing the 4Ms Framework to improve the lives of older adult patients, their families and caregivers and, in the process, RUSH employees.
Case Study: Becoming an Age-Friendly Health System
Kent Hospital in Rhode Island opened an Adult Care for Elders (ACE) unit to test and implement the Age-Friendly Health Systems 4Ms Framework. Since opening, the unit has seen a reduction in length of stay and falls with injury, along with an increase in patient and staff satisfaction.
AHA honors five programs with Dick Davidson NOVA Award
The AHA announced it is honoring five hospital-led partnerships with the AHA Dick Davidson NOVA Award for each program’s efforts to improve community health.
President signs executive orders aimed at addressing high drug prices
President Trump signed three executive orders aimed at lowering the price of prescription drugs, with actions targeting federally qualified health center insulin and EpiPen discounts; the importation and re-importation of prescription drugs from foreign countries; and drug manufacturer rebates and discounts traditionally negotiated by and given to pharmacy benefit managers.
Summit focuses on Black maternal health, advancing Momnibus Act
Leaders of the Black Maternal Health Caucus virtually convened the second annual Stakeholder Summit, where members of Congress and supporting organizations urged passage of the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act (H.R. 6142/S. 3424) to end preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, and eliminate disparities in maternal health outcomes.
Case study details commitment to minority behavioral health, community wellness during a pandemic
Saint Anthony Hospital, a safety-net hospital in Chicago, through its Community Wellness Programs has continued to provide free mental health services targeting minority and immigrant populations despite challenges due to COVID-19.