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Advancing empathy in AI: Vanderbilt tackles chatbot safety for mental health

A team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is setting out on a two-year project that aims to make AI chatbots more effective — and more empathetic — when part of behavioral health care treatment.
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Intermountain Healthcare Embraces Transformation

Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare continues to transform itself to best adapt to the demands of the changing health care environment. As part of the current transformation, the health system has organized its leadership to optimize the interdependencies of safety, quality, patient experience and workforce engagement. Under this construct, the system streamlines decision making, minimizes waste and redundancy, and positions the organization to deliver exceptional patient-centered care.
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Hospital Stories

Explore stories of hospitals going above and beyond to care for their patients and communities throughout America. Search by location using state, category, or hospital name in the interactive map, or sort stories by category using the filter.
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Hartford HealthCare enhances translation services for deaf and hard-of-hearing patients

Hartford HealthCare in Connecticut is partnering with the American School for the Deaf to offer in-person American Sign Language services and other translation services for deaf and hard-of-hearing patients and their companions.
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Bartlett Regional Hospital Connecting Patients to Community Support Agencies

In 2018, collaborating with community partners to better serve its patients in the greater Juneau, Alaska region, Bartlett Regional Hospital implemented an emergency department information exchange system that made possible real-time information sharing that is imperative for coordinated care efforts.

AHA Strategic Alliances: Podcasts

This podcast brings attention to health inequities in Black and underserved communities through the lens of the ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency and 2020-2021 flu season. Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of AHA’s Physician Alliance, speaks with Andrea Custis, Urban League of Philadelphia president and CEO, on the challenges and opportunities presented by the current public health climate.
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The life-saving heart surgery few can perform: Meet the Temple surgeon leading the way

A complicated, rare and difficult-to-perform heart surgery first pioneered more than 50 years ago is making a comeback, due to improved techniques that yield better results.
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Public Trust and Accountability: AHA Resources for Hospitals

Explore existing AHA tools and resources that relate to topics covered withing the self-assessment tool.
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Rural hospital’s Mobile Integrated Healthcare program closes care gaps

Monadnock Community Hospital’s Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) program is closing care gaps in the rural community of Peterborough, N.H., and the eastern Monadnock region.
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Population Health | Center

Health equity and social determinants have a direct impact on outcomes. And the role of social determinants of health outcomes has never been clearer. The AHA Center for Health Innovation can help hospitals and health systems partner with communities and redesign delivery systems to ensure seamless, high-quality and affordable care for all patients.