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Chair File: Leadership Rounds — Talking Mental Health and Well-being with Robert Trestman, M.D., Chair, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Carilion Clinic

On this episode, I have an important conversation with Robert Trestman, M.D., chair for psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Carilion Clinic and a professor at the Viriginia Tech/Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke, Va.
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Chair File: Showcasing Innovation to Advance Behavioral Health

America’s health care providers are no strangers to challenges. Time and again, we have overcome complex, difficult and daunting situations by using innovative approaches that have vastly improved patients’ lives.
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Chair File: A Shared Purpose of Providing Better Health Care for All

For the past 125 years, the AHA has been a tireless advocate for the health care field, patients, and communities.
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Chair File: Sustaining the Well-being of Our Health Care Workforce

Working in health care delivery can be stressful and tiring under normal circumstances. And the COVID-19 pandemic has exerted incredible pressures on the emotional and physical well-being of our health care professionals. 
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Chair File: Safeguarding and Strengthening Rural Health Care

Today I had the opportunity to welcome more than 1,000 people to the AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference.
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Chair File: Reflecting on Our Mission of Healing and Health

Whether it’s responding to a pandemic, natural disasters or other medical emergencies, hospitals are ready when our communities need us. Through nearly two years of the COVID-19 pandemic the challenges have been many, but I’ve often said this marathon we’re running is our finest hour. 
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Chair File: Exploring the Health Care Landscape in 2022 and Beyond

Although the COVID-19 marathon is not yet over, it’s a good time to pause and consider the health care landscape ahead. 
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Chair File: Creating a Culture of Health for All

The factors that influence health are present in all aspects of our lives — in our own homes, in our communities and in society as a whole. In theory, this gives each of us the opportunity to improve and maintain our health, with support from hospitals and other providers, community-based organizations, businesses and government agencies. 
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Chair File: AHA Leadership Summit 2021 — Reimagining Health Care

What qualities make an outstanding leader, whether in health care or another field? Your list may include being collaborative, courageous, empathetic, innovative, inspiring, and intelligent. Based on my experiences and observations during the COVID-19 pandemic, I’d add a couple more: being humble and resilient. 
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Chair File: Words Matter in Providing Compassionate Care

And it’s not only what we say to patients and their families that matters but how we talk with care teams in private. Many times we may not even realize we are being insensitive or spreading stigma.