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Workplace Violence Prevention in Hospitals: SSM Health’s United Front

Workplace violence prevention in health care has become one of the most urgent priorities for hospitals and health care systems nationwide.
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Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Workplace Safety for Health Care Professionals with AHA and AONL Executive Claire Zangerle

In this Leadership Dialogue, I’m joined by Claire Zangerle, chief executive officer of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership and AHA senior vice president and chief nurse executive.
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Current Employee Experience Trends in Health Care

Recent data from Press Ganey, reflecting input from over 1.4 million health care employees, reveals that after an initial post-pandemic rebound, employee engagement declined slightly in 2024 — a decrease of 0.02 on a 5-point scale.
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Speaking Up for Priorities That Will Help Hospitals Advance Health for Patients and Communities

It is important to use the August recess that begins next week as an opportunity to engage senators and representatives while they are back home. It is critical for federal lawmakers to understand the challenges hospitals and health systems face.
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7 Tactics for Successfully Driving Health Care Team Engagement

In today’s rapidly evolving health care landscape — where patient outcomes and safety are non-negotiable top priorities — health systems and their staff are under constant pressure to balance competing demands.
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Protecting Health Care Workers and Communities from Violence

America’s hospitals and health systems are places of healing, hope and health.
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Chair File: Keeping Health Care Workers Safe

The AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence (HAV) initiative shares resources and strategies to promote a culture of safety across the field. To guide health care leaders in efforts to prevent and mitigate violence, the HAV initiative developed the Building a Safe Workplace and Community framework.
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Taking Action to Protect Caregivers from Violence

Despite the diligent efforts of hospitals, health systems and medical professionals to prevent violence, health care workers remain five times more likely than any other type of worker to be physically attacked on the job.
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Protecting the Health Care Workers Who Care for Us

Violence in health care settings should never be accepted as “part of the job.”
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Chair File: Team Training Improves Patient Safety

Next week, June 20-22, the AHA is hosting a Team Training National Conference in San Diego for health care organizations to improve patient safety by successfully implementing and sustaining TeamSTEPPS, an evidence-based set of teamwork tools. Hospitals and health systems across the U.S. have used TeamSTEPPS to improve quality and safety.