AHA/HRET Guides
The American Hospital Association (AHA) shares guides created by its Health Research and Education Trust (HRET).
Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in enhanced patient safety and improved clinical performance.
This white paper provides valuable perspectives on how the accountable care movement has or will impact the hospital sector. This work was supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations.
To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their families.
Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence in their communities. Evidence shows that hospital-based violence intervention programs reduce violence, save lives and decrease health care costs.
This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care disparities and ensure hospital leadership reflect the communities they serve.
As the field moves from a fee-for-service to value-based model, leaders are focusing on quality, population health management and providing more integrated, better coordinated care. The goals are to improve the health of the community through increased access to primary care, appropriate admissions…
As the field moves from a fee-for-service to value-based model, hospitals are focusing on quality and population health management, and on providing more integrated, better coordinated care.
This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from '2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchmark Study of U.S. Hospitals' report, along with interviews from hospital leaders. It highlights several key points. The benefits of cultural compency: Social Health Business Three key steps toward…