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Advancing Health is the American Hospital Association’s podcast series. Podcasts feature conversations with hospital and health system leaders on a variety of issues that impact patients and communities.

Over the past few years every leader of health care organization in the country has had to acknowledge the threat of a cyberattack that has the potential to compromise systems and patient safety.
The integration of behavioral health and primary health care leads to early detection and treatment of numerous issues.
In late March the American Hospital Association's Institute for Diversity and Health Equity rolled out its long awaited Health Equity Roadmap, a national initiative to drive improvement in health care outcomes, health equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Over the past few years the goal of health equity has moved into our national conversation about health care in a new, bigger and different way.
Rural hospitals are community strongholds, serving as the key point of care for nearly 20 percent of Americans.
In this podcast that highlights a new report from the AHA detailing these factors, Philip Pandolph, president and CEO, Meadville (PA) Medical Center and Chair of the AHA Rural Health Services Committee, explains how rising costs for supplies and equipment, drugs, and labor, along with inflation and…
Ask nearly any health care CEO in America what they consider their number #1 problem and they can answer with one word: Workforce.
Clinicians more so than ever are making the move into leadership positions.
On this Leadership Dialogue Series podcast, AHA Board Chair Wright L. Lassiter III is joined by Matthew Stanley, D.O., a psychiatrist and clinical vice president of the behavioral health service line at Avera Health, based in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Though recognizing implicit bias is important, hospitals must have an action plan to address it.