Insights and Analysis

Treatment, housing and employment opportunities – not incarceration – are what helps people overcome substance use disorder (SUD), says Muriel Castiel, M.D., the health and human services commissioner for Worcester, Mass.
Hospital and health system leaders must continue to focus on internal and community partnerships that drive the most affordable, accessible and social changes possible in a population health environment, a panel of hospital and health system leaders said at a recent AHA Executive Forum in Chicago…
Health care providers can optimize their buildings for improved infection prevention and control.
All AHA hospital and health system members are now members of the newly renamed Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, an affiliate of the AHA.
Panelists discussed proactive, preventative approaches to care aid in population health strategies, and a case study in targeting opioid substance use disorder in communities.
Panelists share transitional care strategies to help those who frequent their emergency departments, as well tips about how telemedicine has empowered them.
Anderson was president and CEO of Parkland Health & Hospital System for 29 years.
Conscience protections for health professionals are long-standing and deeply rooted in our health care delivery system.
Upland-based San Antonio Regional Hospital partnered nearly two years ago with prominent real estate developer and philanthropist Randall Lewis to create the Lewis-San Antonio Healthy Communities Institute or HCI.