Articles
Delivery System Transformation, Strategic Planning
Anchoring hospitals in the community
A few months ago, a group of “citizen journalists” — two dozen Newark, N.J., high school students supported by RWJBarnabas Health, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and other civic partners — created a full-length documentary on food insecurity in their city, defining its prevalence, reporting on local entrepreneurial solutions and sharing their vision of a healthier hometown.
Delivery System Transformation, Strategic Planning
Investing in healthy cities
What does it mean for a health system to invest fully in its community? Dozens of health care organizations across the country are learning that the commitment goes beyond typical community benefit programs and requires innovative thinking about partnerships. It’s a mindset shift for many health care leaders but one that could be the future of sustainable, preventive population health.
Covering the Spectrum of Community Need
It was a tough day at Union High School for Kim (not her real name). The freshman was coming down with some kind of bug, but didn’t say anything to her mom who, as usual, was racing to get Kim to school before she headed to work. A pediatrician’s appointment would have cost them both the whole day, with offices a long drive from their home in Grand Rapids, Mich. Kim struggled through her morning classes, feeling worse every hour. “Why don’t you go to the school clinic?” her friend asked.
Ohio Hospital Association Builds on Century of Fostering Collaboration
As a quality improvement leader through its Hospital Engagement Network, created by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ national Partnership for Patients and its Leading Edge Advanced Practice Topics initiative, the Ohio Hospital Association continues to uphold a 100-year commitment to care quality. The OHA’s highly successful hand-hygiene program is a signature example of that commitment, which has garnered the organization an honorable mention for the American Hospital Association's 2016 Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award.
Governance Effectiveness, Care Delivery, Workforce
Making the case for community health workers
Spectrum Health, a Michigan health care system serving both urban and nonurban areas, is striving to quantify the benefits that community health workers provide to patients with chronic conditions. The initiative demonstrates how wide-ranging health care networks like Spectrum can adapt specific strategies to meet the needs of sometimes very different patient populations.
What Antibiotic-resistant Germs Cause
What Antibiotic-Resistant Germs Cause:
- 2 million illnesses in the U.S. every year
- 23,000 deaths in the U.S. every year
- 37,000 lives could be saved over 5 years by preventing infections and improving antibiotic prescribing