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Video shares importance of community engagement
In a video on the AHA’s Care Delivery Transformation Framework, hospital leaders from CommonSpirit Health and Fairview Health Services share meaningful ways hospitals and health systems can engage and connect with communities to improve overall health and well-being.
AHA podcast: Beacon Health’s Efforts to Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality
Kimberly Green Reeves, vice president of community impact and partnerships at Beacon Health System, and Cassy White, director of community impact at Beacon Health System, share how data, care coordination and community involvement are helping reduce infant mortality in Michigan and Indiana.
Blog examines the effects of suicide in rural communities
Susan Doherty, AHA’s vice president of field engagement, and Rebecca Chickey, AHA’s senior director of behavioral health services, write on the unique ways suicide affects rural communities and the innovative methods rural health care providers are using to care for their neighbors.
HHS awards $1.5 billion in opioid response grants to states, tribal communities
HHS awards $1.5 billion in opioid response grants to states, tribal communities
Case study: How Children’s Mercy Kansas City remodeled efforts to improve community health initiatives
A case study by the AHA's Community Health Improvement network explains how Children’s Mercy Kansas City created a new model to coordinate its community health efforts and make more progress at a faster rate.
AHA blog discusses the need to address minority mental health
Rosalyn Carpenter and Paul Rains, R.N., write about the importance of fostering an inclusive environment to reduce stigma around behavioral health care for historically underserved communities.
Hospitals, health systems win HHS postpartum care equity challenge
The Department of Health and Human Services Feb. 14 named several hospital and health system programs final phase winners in its national competition to improve equity in postpartum care for Black and American Indian/Alaska Native women enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
AHA blog: Reducing Barriers to Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Mary Thompson — a member of AHA’s Committee on Behavioral Health and president of Trillium Place, a mental health and addiction recovery organization affiliated with Carle Health — explains how the Illinois-based organization works to integrate physical and behavioral health services to improve access to care among historically underrepresented communities and eliminate health disparities.
New infographic shows hospitals’ massive economic and community impact
The AHA released an infographic Feb. 13 highlighting the many ways hospitals and health systems advance health and support their communities.