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Partnering in the New Health Care Environment: 5 Questions for Boards
Health care is transforming to a value-based model, with the goals of improved care quality, access and outcomes for consumers, at lower costs. The means of achieving these goals is the effective management of health and health care services over the continuum of a population’s care and service needs.
Responding to a Community Mental Health Crisis
How collaboration with community partners and identification of resources allowed Carroll Hospital to improve coordinated behavioral health services.
Aging Is Not a Trend: Why Boards Must Lead in the Longevity Era
Aging care is the ultimate test of leadership and a better model for all.
Building Community Health
In pursuit of its longstanding vision of a “society of healthy communities where all individuals reach their highest potential for health,” the American Hospital Association supports hospitals, health systems and related organizations in engaging in strategic initiatives that together create a path toward advancing health in America.
Making Community Health Improvement the Heart and Soul of Governance
Continually improving community health should be part of the DNA of a health care organization and its board.
Community Partnership Profiles: Learnings on Governance from Partnerships that Improve Community Health
Lessons Learned from Foster G. McGaw Prize Recipients Community Partnership Profiles - Advances in Health Care Governance Series
Leadership Role of Nonprofit Health Systems in Improving Community Health
This report discusses the complex challenges involved in community health improvement and makes the case for why health systems should take a substantial role in the multi-sector collaboration needed to achieve significant impact.
Learnings on Governance from Partnerships that Improve Community Health
Hospitals’ and health systems’ accountability and commitment to their communities are not only for the care provided within the organizations’ walls, but also for improving the overall health of the communities they serve. Many are acting on that commitment by striving to achieve the goals of the Triple Aim.
Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities
The American Hospital Association (AHA) Board of Trustees, in 2015, created a task force to address these challenges and examine ways in which hospitals can help ensure access to health care services in vulnerable communities. The task force considered a number of integrated, comprehensive strategies to reform health care delivery and payment. Their report sets forth a menu of options from which
communities may select based on their unique needs, support structures and preferences.
Addressing the Social Determinants of Health
Boards can advocate for policy changes or ways to harness community resources.