Chairperson's File
Blog posts from 2024 AHA Board Chair Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., CEO and president of Dartmouth Health, and past chairs.
Here's the promising news: About 95 percent of hospitals and health care systems collect data on patients' race, ethnicity and primary language. The not-so-good news is only 22 percent of hospitals and systems are using that data to identify disparities in treatment or outcomes between racial or…
Improving population health is a must-do strategy in transforming health care delivery. Yale New Haven Health System, based in New Haven, Conn., has progressed quickly to improve population health management, developing data-driven interventions. The health system conducts a community health needs…
Hospitals and health care systems can support their missions and also many additional benefits by tapping into the power of environmental sustainability. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, a 178-bed hospital in Dover, N.H., completed a series of sustainability projects that have brought significant…
Transition coaches may be the “glue” between hospital visits and primary care. So says Julie Cann-Taylor, COO of Wyoming Medical Center in Casper. The 191-bed rural hospital participates in a statewide collaborative to improve care transitions and has five transition coaches who assist…
Improving care after discharge translates to decreased readmissions. Marshall Medical Center, a 113-bed hospital in Placerville, Calif., used the AHA/HRET Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) change package driver to improve care transitions for discharged patients, reducing its readmission rate by…
National Hospital Week celebrates the men and women working in U.S. hospitals and care systems who are always ready to serve, care and heal. Like many U.S. hospitals and care systems, the staff at Main Line Health provides health care to a diverse patient population. The health system, which serves…
Today's hospital and care system leaders are addressing challenges while maximizing opportunities for transformation and innovation in the U.S. health care system. The AHA's nine-month Health Care Transformation Fellowship provides senior health care leaders with knowledge and actionable tools…
At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are leading successful initiatives to improve quality, patient safety, clinical integration and population health. The Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence…
More than 20 hospitals came together with community organizations in the Cincinnati area to provide better, more equitable care and close gaps in care disparities. The “Cincinnati Expecting Success” project, facilitated by the Greater Cincinnati Health Council, focused on collecting…
The “second curve” of population health involves an integrated approach to improving patient and community health. Three Dignity Health hospitals in Bakersfield, California—Mercy Hospital Downtown, Mercy Hospital Southwest and Memorial Hospital—have expanded population…