Articles
Emergency Readiness
East Alabama Medical Center highlights need for emergency preparedness, community partnerships
East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika treated patients in early March for a tornado that claimed 23 lives and underscored the importance of natural disaster preparation and forging strong, year-round community partnerships.
Hospitals Against Violence, AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, Access to Behavioral Health, Wellness/Preventive Care, Workplace Violence
How Oregon hospitals developed an evidence-based workplace violence prevention resource
Learn how an Oregon association collaborated with community stakeholders to produce an evidence-based toolkit to prevent workplace violence.
Rural issues
Partnerships a plus for Gundersen, critical access hospitals
Learn about the framework for Gundersen Health System’s (La Crosse, Wis.) model for affiliations with critical access hospitals and how it has led to reduced operational costs and reduced costs of care.
AHA, Leadership, AHA Board Profiles
Yale New Haven Health CEO Borgstrom strives to provide unparalleled value to patients and her community
Marna Borgstrom, who joined the AHA Board of Trustees this year, talks about improving quality and value for patients, the importance of having a great team to execute your strategy, and her role as the chair of the Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care.
Rural issues, Rural Workforce, AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, Leadership
A nine-step roadmap for implementing Lean in rural hospitals
Harney District Hospital, Burns, Ore., is one of many hospitals nationwide that have embraced the Lean mentality, modeled after Toyota’s discipline of lean manufacturing in the 1950s to ensure high quality products. At AHA’s 2019 Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, attendees learned how rural hospitals and health systems can do more with less.
Population/Community Health, Data & Insights
How Copley Hospital is decreasing the number of ED visits by connecting its community to care
In efforts to increase primary care use in the community and decrease avoidable emergency department visits, Copley Hospital in Morrisville, Vt., has spent the past few years examining state data to better understand its population’s needs.
Drug Prices
Experts discuss drug pricing, shortage concerns at AHA Hill briefing
The AHA, Federation of American Hospitals, and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists today convened a panel of experts on Capitol Hill to discuss how continued rising drug prices, as well as shortages for many critical medications, are disrupting patient care and forcing hospitals to delay infrastructure and staffing investments and identify alternative therapies.
ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Codes and Coding, Nurse Leadership, Human Trafficking
Cleveland nurse talks about nurses’ roles in combating human trafficking
Kathleen Hackett, R.N., a nurse at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, shares how nurses can help identify victims of human trafficking and why the new ICD-10 codes are so important.
Leveraging Technology, Maternal Health
Penn Medicine addresses pregnancy-related hypertension with home monitoring digital technology
Penn Medicine uses digital technology to help postpartum women take control of their blood pressure.
Innovation
Stanford Health Care leaders share insights, tips for partnering with Silicon Valley
Stanford Health Care leaders discussed how the future of health care involves technological innovation with Silicon Valley, and how hospital and health system leaders can partner on meaningful venture opportunities to improve health.