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This report highlights nearly 80 evidence-based disease and injury prevention programs. These program ideas can be scaled and applied to other communities to improve population health.
Lean transformation means improved patient care, employee satisfaction and reduced costs as MSHA incorporates it in its organizational culture. Mountain States Health Alliance, formed in 1998, is a large health care system in northwest Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina. The network…
Patients are becoming empowered. As health care consumers, they are reviewing publicly available data, including quality and satisfaction measures. Hospitals and health care systems need to know their patient populations so they can accommodate individual needs and provide high-quality, patient-…
Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will share their quality improvement stories during a two-part Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence webinar series. These hospitals and care systems have committed in a systematic manner to achieving the…
AHA Statement before the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law of the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives.
This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health by incorporating health considerations into collaborative decision-making across sectors and policy areas.
This toolkit helps track community partnerships, assess opportunities for increased engagement and prioritize health issues, and includes action and sustainability guides.