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Baxter Regional Medical Center - Community Health and Education Houses

What is it?The four Community Health and Education Houses provide support in four areas of living: cancer, diabetes, aging, and women’s issues.
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Claremont Healthy Village Initiative--South Bronx, New York

Claremont Village is a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing development in the South Bronx and home to over 13,000 residents.
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FDA Approves Novel Glucose Monitoring System

The FDA yesterday approved the first continuous glucose monitoring system with a fully implantable sensor, designed to measure glucose levels in adults with diabetes for up to 90 days.
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Share how your organization is working to improve health equity – apply for the AHA Equity of Care Award Applications for the 2019 AHA Equity of Care Award are due by Feb. 19

Please consider applying for the award and sharing how your organization is improving health equity and value.

3 Ways Hospitals Are Improving Behavioral Health Care

Snapshot Years of deep cuts to mental health care services have left ill-equipped hospital emergency departments struggling to care for untreated patients.
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WellStar Health System - Promotores de Salud (Health Promoters)

What is it?WellStar Health System is striving to eliminate diabetes and obesity among Hispanic and Latino populations.
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Memorial Medical Center - Nuestra Vida (Our Lives)

What is it?Nuestra Vida (Our Lives) is a collaborative effort between Memorial Medical Center and county government.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

4 Steps to Mitigate Algorithmic Bias

In its first global report on AI, the World Health Organization recently cited concerns about algorithmic bias and the potential to misuse the technology and cause harm.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Hospitals Work to Ensure Patients a Safe Return for Needed Care

The pandemic has given high-risk patients cause for concern about returning to health care providers for routine care. The impact of this medical distancing won’t be fully understood for some time but, in the meantime, hospitals and health care systems face yet another significant hurdle in a year that has been replete with challenges: how to assure patients that returning for needed tests and treatment will be safe.
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CDC: Rural residents more likely to die from potentially preventable causes

Potentially preventable deaths from cancer, heart disease, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease and stroke were more common in rural than urban counties between 2010 and 2017.