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Workforce Diversity, Population/Community Health, Physician Leaders, Reducing Healthcare Disparities, Care Delivery Transformation
Jay Bhatt: Eight takeaways and observations from last week’s IHI conference
Last week’s Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care brought together individuals across the health care system for a conversation to accelerate, amplify and take action toward creating a better future.
Innovation
Technology is Reinventing Health and Medicine
When many of the brightest people in the health care field gather for some epic brainstorming to predict what the future of health care will look like, the results deserve our attention.
Nurse Leadership, Physician Leaders
AHA Stat Blog: Podcasts spotlight how nurse and physician leaders use synergy as a strategy
Jay Bhatt, D.O., AHA senior vice president and chief medical officer, and Robyn Begley, DNP, R.N., AHA senior vice president and chief nursing officer, highlight three podcasts featuring leaders from Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Catholic Health Initiatives discussing effective co-leadership models.
Maternal Health
Focusing medical technology on neonatal abstinence syndrome
Even as we work to close our knowledge gaps around long-term outcomes and care, it is clear that Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome merits greater attention.
Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities, Population/Community Health, AHA
Introducing a field manual for community health worker programs
CHW programs — which are in wider use overseas than domestically — hold enormous promise for delivering on hospitals’ commitment to advance health in their communities.
Opioids
Together, We Can Prevent Further Addiction and End the Opioid Epidemic
Every day, more than 130 Americans die from opioid-related drug overdoses. It’s clear that the opioid epidemic’s grip on our communities continues to be a major challenge. At the same time, we also see progress in addressing the problem.
Burnout
AHA Stat Blog: Hospitals and health systems share lessons for fostering physician well-being and fighting burnout
AHA Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., shares examples of how Avera Health in South Dakota, WellSpan York Hospital in Pennsylvania, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System are implementing efforts to advance clinician well-being and reduce burnout. Read more.
Antibiotic Stewardship
Tackling the Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance: Take the CDC AMR Challenge
Join me in taking the CDC AMR Challenge to tackle the pressing issue of antimicrobial resistance in order to ensure a holistic, multidisciplinary approach in combatting AMR at the regional and national levels.
Physician Leaders, Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities, Social Determinants of Health, Physician Alliance: Care Well, AHA Physician Alliance, Reducing Healthcare Disparities
The common denominator for addressing social determinants? Meet people where they are
AHA Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O. highlights two podcasts from the AHA Physician Alliance series in which Allen Weiss, M.D., president and CEO of NCH Healthcare System in Naples, Fla., and Christine Stabler, M.D., vice president for academic affairs, Lancaster Health in Lancaster, Pa., discuss the importance of partnerships and thinking outside the box in order to improve the health of individuals and communities.
Community Partnerships, Reducing Healthcare Disparities
Prioritizing community health to achieve health equity
To achieve health equity, all of us—hospitals and health systems, allied hospital associations, and local, state and national stakeholders—will need to partner and prioritize the work that improves the health of our communities.