AHA/HRET Guides

The American Hospital Association (AHA) shares guides created by its Health Research and Education Trust (HRET).

A key component to making patient care safer is to track your data and progress towards improvement. The HEN 2.0 project, supported by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Partnership for Patients (PFP), provides a number of tools to support hospital leaders. This compilation of…
Case studies in the guide provide examples of how hospital and health systems, working with community partners, can improve the quality of and access to behavioral health care, while bending the cost curve and improving community health.
Adoption of these new systems can be facilitated by new and innovative payment models that center on individual and community needs, rewarding high-quality with desired individual and population health outcomes.
To achieve these goals, hospital leaders are designing new care delivery systems. Adoption of these new systems can be facilitated by new and innovative payment models that center on individual and community needs by rewarding high-quality.
Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three examples:
By adopting a supplier diversity program, hospitals and health care systems can support minority-owned businesses and communities while obtaining products and services of competitively high quality and value.
Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences.