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Leadership, Physician Leaders, Physician Alliance: Lead Well, AHA Physician Alliance
The Secret Sauce: Beginning and Maintaining Successful Clinical Partnerships
The work of building a successful dyad requires true partnership.
Maternal Health
AHA Op-Ed: Hospitals Working to Improve Maternal Health
Hospitals are working to improve care for all, including maternal health, AHA senior vice president and chief medical officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., writes in an op-ed piece posted by USA TODAY.
Social Determinants of Health, Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities
AHA/UnidosUS Alliance is Strengthening to Address Youth Violence
The AHA’s work to address the social determinants of health and advance health equity, particularly in the form of novel partnerships and collaborations, underscores the imperative of change agents who are making a difference in their communities.
Antibiotic Stewardship, Making Healthcare More Affordable, Patient and Family Education/Engagement
Five Key Issues to Improve Health, Improve Quality of Patient Experience and Lower Costs
There is a common theme among hospitals and health systems working to contain health care costs while also improving health outcomes: using medical resources more appropriately.
Access to Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Care Delivery
The Rising Rate of Suicide
Suicides have increased by more than 25 percent during the past decade, and it is now the tenth-leading cause of death in the U.S., costing more than $44 billion annually.
Innovation/New Models of Care, Access & Health Coverage, Disruptive Behavior
Are You a Health Care Innovator?
The AHA is inviting members to become a change agent or health care disruptor—to solve real, complex health care problems and answer the strong demand for innovation in the field now.
Social Determinants of Health, Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities, Community Health Workers
Your Zip Code, Your Health
Your zip code dictates your health; your hospital wants to change that.
Physician Leaders, Physician Alliance: Lead Well, AHA Physician Alliance
AHA’s Jay Bhatt: Preparing Physicians for Change Management, Self-leadership
Physicians spend many years learning clinical practice, yet we don’t prepare them for change management or self-leadership. The AHA Physician Alliance has partnered with Novant Health and OneTeam Leadership on a pilot program to help fill this gap in training.
Infection Prevention and Control, Quality & Patient Safety
Preventing the Spread of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs)
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a Vital Signs report identifying the threats associated with antibiotic resistance (AR) and recommending “early and aggressive action” to prevent resistant pathogens from spreading in health care facilities.
Social Determinants of Health, Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities, Leadership
AHA CMO Jay Bhatt: Surgeon General, Other Leaders Highlight Importance of Community Partnerships at ACHI Conference
At the AHA’s Association for Community Health Improvement (ACHI) National Conference last week, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, M.D., spoke about how strengthening relationships between health care organizations and communities is the key to improving health. Aligned with his motto, “Better health through better partnerships,” Adams’ message focused on the need to be willing to go to our partners' table, speak their language, listen to their concerns, understand needs, identify opportunities and take action together.