Guides/Reports
American Hospital Association guides and reports for members and the health care field.
This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in federal and state laws regarding responsibilities and imlementation.
The AHA's framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and families and contemplates the role of hospitals and health care systems in improving the overall health of the population and communities they are serving. Within this context, in 2012 the AHA Board…
This report identifies steps that policy, public health and community stakeholders can take to prioritize prevention in the US health care system.
This report discusses strategies to help health care leaders prioritize three foundational elements of population health: 1) information-powered clinical decision-making; 2) primary care-led clinical workforce; and 3) patient engagement and community integration.
This report details the Institute of Medicine's roundtable on population health improvement and discusses how provisions in the Affordable Care Act will impact population health.
This book provides practical skills for building communities. Chapters three, four and five address how to conduct a community assessment. Related toolkits are included.
This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patient and community awareness and engagement and a ready, willing and able workforce.
Awareness: Communitywide strategies can significantly raise patient and family awareness in advanced illness planning…
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Today, Medicare covers more than 48 million people, and that number is growing rapidlybaby boomers are reaching the eligibility age of 65 at the rate of 10,000 a day.1 Medicare patients exhibit a growing prevalence of chronic conditions and risk factors for these conditions, such as obesity. This…