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Infection Control and Prevention
Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) prevention and reduction are longstanding quality and patient safety priorities.
Patient Safety Initiative Resources
The AHA has worked with hospitals and health systems to share tools that help build a culture of patient safety and adopt best practices.
AHA Patient Safety Initiative
The Patient Safety Initiative (PSI) is a collaborative, data-driven effort that gives hospitals and health systems a strong voice in the national conversation around health care safety, centering the views of clinicians, and telling the hospital and health system patient safety story.
Benefits to Communities
The mission of all hospitals and health systems, regardless of size and type of ownership, is to care for their patients and communities. In addition to providing financial assistance to those in need, hospitals have programs that are responsive to their community’s needs. These community benefits include help with housing, accessing healthy food, educational programs, health screenings, transportation to ensure patients arrive at needed medical appointments, vaccination clinics and other programs to address the many other needs that affect the community’s health and well-being.
Stories from the Front Lines
Every day health care professionals across the country and around the world are doing amazing work to combat the coronavirus and care for people – physically and emotionally. Here you’ll find their heartwarming stories. It’s our opportunity to honor, celebrate and thank them for rising up and never giving up to end this pandemic.
AHA Center for Health Innovation | Center
The AHA has the responsibility and opportunity to take action on the most pressing health care issues today. We embrace this opportunity to drive meaningful progress, and to do so by collaborating with our hospital and health system members, government agencies, business partners, community partners, patients, and families.))
COVID-19 Communications Resources
As the coronavirus continues to unfold, hospitals and health systems are scrambling to develop, execute and adjust their communications plans. AHA offers tools and resources to help the field communicate efficiently and effectively during this pandemic.