AHA Center for Health Innovation
To ensure that health care organizations, physicians and nurses remain prepared to meet these demands to care for patients who undergo recommended essential operations, the AHA along with the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Anesthesiologists and Association of periOperative…
Sustaining hospitals and health systems and positioning them for success moving forward is a chief focus of Navigating a New Reality: Health Care Leaders Confront the Future, a three-day virtual conference, Sept. 14-16, sponsored by the AHA Center for Health Innovation and the Society for Health…
Deferment of medical care during the pandemic has had negative consequences for patients and providers. And even now, with most states lifting restrictions on so-called elective surgeries, the issue of how to quickly and effectively restart these services could bring unintended consequences.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced Americans to rapidly and without warning pivot to telehealth at levels exponentially higher than before the pandemic. So, what’s next?
Heightened demand for behavioral health services has presented hospitals and health systems with challenges and opportunities to increase capacity, forge partnerships to deliver care to patients and caregivers, and leverage tools to assess their capabilities.
The pandemic has given high-risk patients cause for concern about returning to health care providers for routine care. The impact of this medical distancing won’t be fully understood for some time but, in the meantime, hospitals and health care systems face yet another significant hurdle in a year…
More than half of independent physicians reported concerns about whether their practices will survive during the pandemic, according to a recent McKinsey & Company survey.
Teams under stress require a solid base of trust, comfort in speaking up, team support, established team values, leadership alignment and communication tools. Sanne Holbrook Henninger, MSW, LCSW, Ed D discusses how concepts of psychological safety, performance improvement and TeamSTEPPS can be used…
COVID-19 continues to spread throughout much of the country. Many states are experiencing spikes in cases. Media outlets report a daily total of confirmed cases, hospitalizations and deaths from the virus. But the financial havoc the pandemic is wreaking on hospital and health system finances is…
For all the challenges that COVID-19 has presented, the pandemic also has created significant learning opportunities. Every day, provider organizations are innovating, forging and expanding partnerships, finding better ways to better communicate internally and externally and identifying ways to…