Advancing Health Podcast

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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.

The AHA's Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award recognizes outstanding efforts among hospitals and health care systems to advance equity of care and reduce health disparities within their communities.
Building and retaining a nursing workforce is one of the many challenges facing health care today.
In this podcast, Franck Nelson, RWJUH assistant vice president of health equity, discusses the big steps the organization has taken to dismantle equity barriers in its care delivery system and the community it serves.
In the United States, behavioral health and physical health can sometimes be treated as if they are unconnected, usually involving separate sites of care.
For health care professionals, victims of human trafficking aren’t easy to spot, and many victims are reluctant to share much about the horror they endured.
When kids experience acute behavioral health needs, they need to be cared for at the right time and the right place.
The many pressures squeezing health care providers have all served to make the role of hospital trustees, or governing board members, more important than ever.
The gap between supply and demand for health care continues to grow at an unprecedented rate.
Since 2020 the health care workforce has faced a sharp increase in workplace violence.
The 2022 mass shooting during the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois killed seven people, wounded another 48 and traumatized an entire community.