The Value Initiative
Hospitals are driving value in their communities. Affordable health care is one of the biggest concerns facing families, employers and government, and America’s hospitals are tackling the challenge head on. Through AHA’s The Value Initiative, we are leading the health care field on the issues of affordability and value.
Held April 16, 2019
The AHA’s Value Initiative and AHA’s Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services held a joint Virtual Workshop webinar: Community Collaborations and Medical Integration: Effectively Addressing Substance Use Disorders that featured Dr. Daniel Duhigg, D.…
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
12:00 -1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Join AHA’s Value Initiative and AHA’s Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services for a joint Virtual Workshop webinar: Community Collaborations and Medical Integration: Effectively Addressing Substance Use Disorders…
In part two of our series discussing Value-Based Health Care, Robert Kaplan and Harry Wolberg from the Harvard Business School do a deep dive on Integrated Practice Units, a key component for value-based health care. IPUs are multi-disciplinary care teams deployed to deliver care at the condition…
In this Chairman's File podcast, AHA Chairman Brian Gragnolati discusses the rise in health care consumerism with an expert panel moderated by Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative. The panel was hosted in conjunction with the South by Southwest Festival.
Texas Health CoLab at Dell Medical School – Austin, TX
Co-working Space Is a Catalyst For New Enterprises That Improve Health and Reduce Costs
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…
Montefiore Health System uses the Collaborative Care Model to better serve patients with significant medical and mental health conditions and socioeconomic challenges.
Rural hospitals are a crucial local access point for urgent medical services, primary care and prevention in their communities. Despite multi-faceted and complex challenges, rural hospitals continue to transform and adapt to meet the needs of their populations. This Issue Brief highlights four…
AHA Board Chairman Brian Gragnolati today kicked off the AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference by welcoming more than 900 rural hospital and health system leaders and trustees.
Columbus Community Hospital – Columbus, NE
Interdisciplinary Teams Reduce Readmissions
Through building relationships among providers across the care continuum and implementing standardized processes, Columbus Community Hospital reduced all-cause 30-day readmissions by 42%, saving $819,797 in…