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.
AHA's The Value Initiative has released a summary of 19 hospital and health system strategies to improve health care affordability, spotlighted in its Members in Action series last year
The AHA’s Members in Action series spotlights hospitals and health systems that are implementing new value-based strategies to improve health care affordability. This includes work to redesign the delivery system, manage risk and new payment models, improve quality and outcomes, and implement…
Making care accessible and affordable for patients is the goal for many hospitals. Explore how hospitals are implementing provider to provider and provider to patient telehealth services to improve access to care, enhance patient engagement and drive better outcomes.
The Value Initiative, in collaboration with others across the AHA, will offer a series of virtual workshops for members to learn about the issues impacting affordability and value.
Learn how hospitals are implementing provider to provider and provider to patient telehealth services to improve access to care, enhance patient engagement and drive better outcomes.
Multidisciplinary teams at the University of Tennessee Medical Center used lean methodology to create evidence-based care plans throughout any episode of care, including the ED, outpatient, inpatient, post-acute and home care.
Learn how Sharp HealthCare and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin are using tech-light, simple, human and scalable approaches such as coordinated team-based care patient-centered care to lower costs, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience.
On behalf of the AHA Board of Trustees and our team, thank you for everything you do to advance health in America.
Combining low-tech and high-tech solutions has the greatest potential to help hospitals and health systems reduce cost, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience.