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To Mitigate and Prevent: CommonSpirit Health's Transparent Culture and Error Reporting Toolkit

In this “Safety Speaks” conversation, CommonSpirit Health's Beth Miller, system director, patient safety-performance improvement, and Austin Peterson, system director, patient harm prevention, discuss how safety transparency benefits both patients and providers, and how a CommonSpirit Health toolkit can help organizations lead the way in error reporting and patient safety.
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How a Rural Health System Continues to Provide Essential Obstetric Services

In this conversation, Julie Petersen, CEO of Kittitas Valley Healthcare, discusses how her organization kept its promise to preserve essential obstetric services for women of all ages.
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Unifying Hospital Boards on Quality and Safety

In this new “Safety Speaks” conversation, Harry S. Smith, board chair of Valley Health System and member of the AHA Committee on Governance, discusses how their organization rearranged its governance system to ensure that quality and patient safety standards were being met across the board.
Boardroom Briefs
Legacy

Boardroom Brief: Encouraging a Risk-Aware Culture to Drive Value

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is a strategic business discipline that supports the identification, assessment and management of risks. ERM can advance internal control of material risk and allow an organization to generate greater value from strategic and operational activities. To achieve these advantages, organizations must embed ERM elements into their culture and structure and examine the nature of the risks they face.
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When Disasters Strike, Hospitals Are Always There to Care for and Stand Up for their Communities

Each and every day across the country, our nation’s hospitals and health systems are always there, ready to care.
Letter/Comment
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AHA Response to FTC RFI on Employer Noncompete Agreements

the American Hospital Association thanks the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for dismissing its appeals in Ryan, LLC v. FTC, No. 24-10951 (5th Cir.), and Properties of the Villages v. FTC, No. 24-13102 (11th Cir.), and acceding to the vacatur of the Non-Compete Clause Rule.
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Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Legal Advocacy to Protect Hospitals With AHA General Counsel Chad Golder

Chad Golder, general counsel at the AHA, recently joined me on the Leadership Dialogue for a conversation on our current legal environment, what the AHA is doing on behalf of members, and what hospital and health system leaders can do to help.
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Supporting Hospital and Health System Boards as We Navigate a Changing Health Care Landscape

The many complexities of health care today continue to challenge hospital and health system governing boards to ensure that high-quality patient care is provided to the communities they serve.
Letter/Comment
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AHA Response to FEMA RFI on Disaster Responses, Public Assistance Program

AHA's comment on our members’ experiences with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) disaster responses, in particular the FEMA Public Assistance (PA) program