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Guides and Reports

New Personnel Crisis Response Team Coordinates Interdisciplinary Response to Crisis Situations: Geisinger

Geisinger's approach helps leaders create an action plan and ensures the workforce has access to well-being resources after a crisis situation occurs.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

4 Ways Hospitals Can Reshape Their Future

The recently released AHA 2023 Environmental Scan provides a data and analysis snapshot of where the health care field has been and where it’s headed to help executives plot their path forward.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

4 Keys to Accelerate Health Equity

Professionals focused on improving community and population health and building partnerships, and those striving to advance diversity and inclusion within hospital management and executive levels recently convened at the third annual AHA Accelerating Health Equity Conference.
Guides and Reports
Public

Mitigating Targeted Violence in Health Care

Targeted violence in health care is a serious and growing concern among patients, workers, providers, and communities. To assist in addressing these concerns, the AHA has partnered with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit to promote violence prevention strategies and address the escalating threats and acts of targeted violence against health care facilities and their workforce.
Case Studies

Metropolitan Anchor Hospital (MAH) Case Study: Valleywise Health | Arizona

Valleywise Health – formerly known as Maricopa Integrated Health System (MIHS) – has been caring for families and communities in the Phoenix area for more than 140 years. Established in 1877, Valleywise Health provides quality care to the people of Maricopa County in south-central Arizona and beyond.
Guides and Reports
Member

Addressing Commercial Health Plan Challenges to Ensure Fair Coverage for Patients and Providers

This report documents the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) findings related specifically to prior authorization and payment delays and denials. This work is informed by two large surveys of hospitals, as well as interviews and group discussions with hundreds of hospital and health system leaders.
Guides and Reports
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Workplace Violence Prevention | Strengthening the Health Care Workforce

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health system teams experienced violence, from bullying and incivility to active shooters, intimate partner violence, cyberattacks, homicides and suicides. However, the compounding trauma of the pandemic has heightened the need to create a safer workplace, both physically and psychologically, and a more resilient workforce.
Guides and Reports
Member

Supporting Behavioral Health | Strengthening the Health Care Workforce

Reducing stigma and improving access to behavioral health services for the health care workforce, combined with fostering human resilience can improve mental and often physical health, reduce the total cost of care, reduce suicide, and support a healthy workforce.