AHA/HRET Guides
The American Hospital Association (AHA) shares guides created by its Health Research and Education Trust (HRET).
Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post delivery for both mother and child. As a result, many hospitals and health systems are trying to eliminate elective deliveries before 39 weeks.
This toolkit provides a comprehensive approach to the collection of race, ethnicity and primary language data and offers guidance on how to improve quality of care and reduce health disparities.
Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the ownership or control of hospitals, such as through mergers with or acquisitions by other hospitals, the formation of integrated delivery networks or the development of accountable care organizations.
Hospitals and health systems in the United States are facing an unparalleled force to change. Industry experts have projected that multiple, intersecting pressures will drive the transformation of health care delivery and financing from volume- to value-based payments over the next decade.
As America's hospitals and health systems are transforming care, hospitals are facing challenges and opportunities to improve care. The AHA has been pleased to support efforts through the expanding HPOE initiative.
This guide serves to explore the concept of cultural competency and build the case for the enhancement of cultural competency in health care.
This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a variety of topics including care coordination, health and wellness, equity of care, and new payment and care delivery models.
Racial and socioeconomic inequity persists in health care quality. An exploratory interview with three hospital leaders substantiated by a review of the literature reveals that hospitals are collecting race, ethnicity and primary language data about their patients. Leading hospitals are now moving…
The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate variation within their own organizations and in conjunction with care partners.
Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?
Hospital leaders work hard every day to provide high quality care to the patients that they treat. They do this with the goal of providing care that is free of injury and harm.