Care Delivery

To fully understand how physician practice and contracting arrangements and their relationships with hospitals are developed and affect care delivery, the AHA conducted a baseline survey of the nation’s hospitals and health systems to gather data on the types of relationships physicians and…
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2018 Environmental Scan

AHA publishes the Environmental Scan annually to identify emerging trends that will help hospital and health care leaders plan strategically. For more information click here. 
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The 2016 chairman's columns have focused on inspiring stories about hospitals and health systems that are providing exceptional care to impact lives and transform communities all across the country.
Hospitals are working to achieve all elements of the Triple Aim by redesigning traditional ways of delivering care to patients and the community. This collection of case studies features three hospitals and health systems: SCL Health – Denver, Colorado
Press Release Statement on CMS' New Bundled Payments for Cardiac Care and Hip Fractures Tom Nickels Executive Vice President Government Relations and Public Policy July 25, 2016
Find out how hospitals and healthcare systems can disrupt conventional thinking and redesign care delivery to achieve the Triple Aim.
To achieve these goals, hospital leaders are designing new care delivery systems. Adoption of these new systems can be facilitated by new and innovative payment models that center on individual and community needs by rewarding high-quality.