Social Determinants of Health
A new AHA issue brief describes how hospitals are investing in affordable housing, based on initial findings from the Accelerating Investments for Healthy Communities initiative.
Humana’s “Bold Goal” of improving the health of seniors through better management of populations in seven U.S. cities is showing promising results, according to a recent report from the health insurer. Medicare Advantage members living in the company’s original seven Bold Goal communities have seen…
Improving the health of individuals—and their neighborhoods and communities as a whole—is one of the most complex and pressing challenges in health care today. Given the inextricable link between affordable, quality housing and good health, housing is one area that hospitals and health systems are…
The AHA's Physician Alliance has developed resources to help clinicians address social determinants of health within a framework that maximizes their skills while helping organizations systematically approach these challenges.
15 Hospitals in North Carolina and South Carolina
Transforming Care in the Carolinas
Spurred by grant funding and collaboration, 15 hospitals in North Carolina and South Carolina are implementing financially sustainable initiatives to improve the patient experience, enhance care coordination and…
The AHA Physician Alliance conducts regular Questions with Clinician Leaders podcast featuring physicians across the country sharing their views on key issues. This month’s focus is on addressing social determinants of health (SDoH), an effort fundamental to the Care Well value of the Alliance.…
Adjusting for social risk factors such as poverty, disability and housing instability in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program could level the playing field for hospitals that serve the most vulnerable patients.
Pictured, from left to right: Manik Bhat, CEO of Healthify, Inc.; Carmen Llanes Pulido, executive director at Go Austin/Vamos Austin; Dwayne Proctor, senior adviser to the president and director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Ron Paulus, M.D., former president and CEO of Mission Health…
Partnerships among various stakeholders in the health care ecosystem will be key to successfully engaging patients in population health models, explained panelists at the recent 2019 MIT Sloan Healthcare…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services will partner to create addiction recovery transitional housing in rural communities, the agencies announced recently.