Audio/Podcasts

A University of Michigan expert discusses how environmental sustainability efforts can benefit hospitals and health systems and supplement their other ongoing initiatives like engaging the workforce.
Hear recommendations for the bold and innovative approaches that are needed to support current staff and recruit the health care workers of tomorrow.
The shortage of behavioral health care professionals is a serious public health issue, particularly in rural areas. In rural Iowa, some care providers have found successful new pathways to recruit, train and retain behavioral health specialists. 
Across America, many girls lack access to menstrual products, facing a public health crisis known as “period poverty.” Without these products, girls can miss school, be humiliated and experience health problems. One health system is addressing the problem in its community and looking to help.
Two experts discuss the AHA’s recently released 2023 Costs of Caring Report, which documents the skyrocketing growth in expenses, especially the cost of labor.
A nursing leader from the University of Vermont Health Network shares creative ways to help attract and retain nurses, a major workforce challenge, particularly in rural health care settings.
Two experts from Seattle’s Swedish Hospital explain the role that doulas serve in prenatal and postpartum care, and how physicians and doulas can work together to reduce maternal and infant health disparities
Three rural health care policy experts talk about the challenges, goals and opportunities in the context of AHA’s 2023 rural agenda.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack introduces this special podcast, the story of how one man is working to change the world by delivering refurbished ambulances for second service in Ukraine.
Learn how Advocate Children's Hospital is managing the “immunity gap” created by social distancing to persevere through the triple threat of COVID-19, RSV and flu.