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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.
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Board Diversity Survey to Advance Health Equity

Understanding a board’s aptitude and ability to advance health equity should be a key element of board strategy.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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The Importance of Indian Health Care Services

Health Diversity
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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.
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10 Questions Boards Can Answer to Advance Equity

COVID-19 has served as a wake-up call to the inequities experienced by underserved and historically marginalized populations.