Community Health

This toolkit outlines a range of strategies for how health systems are using their investment assets to help address the resource gaps that keep communities from achieving better health and well-being.
This virtual event will feature CCI leaders discussing their recently released Investing in Community Health: A Toolkit for Hospitals and a case example highlighting what the organizations have learned about launching successful community investment initiatives. Following the overview of the…
In this conversation, AHA’s Sue Ellen Wagner, vice president of Trustee Services, is joined by Carol Lovin, the executive vice president, chief integration officer, and system chief of staff at Atrium Health.
This toolkit distills the elements of the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care (National CLAS Standards) framework and is intended to help guide the efforts of HCOs to evaluate the implementation of the National CLAS Standards across…
Social determinants of health – where we live, work and play – have tremendous affect on one’s health, and they can affect anyone, regardless of age, race, ethnicity.  Help your organization and community better understand how social determinants impact your patients and neighbors as well as what…
The Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients’ Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE) Implementation and Action Toolkit is designed to provide interested users with the resources, best practices, and lessons learned to guide implementation, data collection, and responses to social…
Twelve principles to examine the power of the relationships between the health sector and communities.
In this session, representatives from the winning organizations—CommonSpirit Health, Luminis Health, Memorial Health System, Providence, and Texas Health Resources—will discuss how they determined the most effective way to address the issues of homelessness, an aging population, behavioral health…
The AHA Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities examined ways in which the access to and delivery of care could be improved. During that process, the Task Force grappled with the reality that, in vulnerable communities, even if quality care is available, social determinants often…
Ten principles that community stakeholders endorse as the guiding compass on your journey to establishing trustworthiness.