AHA Living Learning Network (LLN)
A peer-to-peer community of health care professionals dedicated to helping hospitals and health systems recover, rebuild and reimagine health care.
Call for Submissions
Last year, the LLN honored those working on the front lines of the pandemic by telling their stories in a first-of-its-kind reflection look book. Today, the Living Learning Network is pleased to announce the creation of a new pandemic reflection project. Share your short stories and images that offer an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how your organization has addressed the challenges of workforce resilience, public trust, financial instability and health equity during the pandemic while still maintaining standards of care.
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New AHA Advancing Health Podcast Episode
Palliative Care During the Pandemic
Top officials for AHA and the Center to Advance Palliative Care discuss the impact and importance of palliative care strategies, challenges and lessons learned throughout the pandemic in this two part series (check out part one).
Nurse Leaders Discuss COVID-19 Nursing Challenges, Solutions
Listen to experts in the field of nursing discuss the current landscape of workforce shortages and community incivility in hospitals and health systems. Presented by the LLN and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL), this conversation shares behind-the-scenes stories and best practices for making an impactful change. Listen to podcast.
Grant & Funding Partnerships Reel
Lln Continues to Connect Peers, Grow Membership
Now accepting applications!
Now in its second year, the AHA Living Learning Network (LLN) connects health care professionals in real time to the immediate needs and successful strategies of their peers through vibrant, peer-to peer sharing platforms such as message boards, email groups, video conferences and learning sessions
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Embracing Flexibility & Adaptability in the Face of COVID-19
Matt Zuino, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Baptist Health in Jacksonville, FL reflects on embracing change and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some lessons learned include: connecting with more patients via telehealth and virtual care, expanding home health care, reinvesting in team members and leveraging predictive analytics.
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Benefits
Why participate?
- Examine issues and opportunities
- Share stories and experiences
- Identify needs
- Co-create tools and resources
- Strengthen skills
- Push each other to become better
COVID-19 Reflections
The Living Learning Network’s new book, The Pandemic: A Time of Challenges and Champions, captures the defining moments of the COVID-19 health care crisis and preserves the legacy of the health care field’s heroic response.
Read it NowAHA Hospitals in Action: Supporting Care Teams
Inspiring Stories and Solutions from the Field
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health systems continue doing everything they can to care for their patients and communities, and that extends to all health care workers on the front lines: physicians, nurses, food services, environmental services, administrative teams, emergency medical services and support teams.
LLN Map of Participating Members
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The LLN set out to engage health care professionals from across the country to authentically represent health care consumers from all walks of life. The only way to emerge from this pandemic stronger is through a national dialogue with diverse representation, transparency and accountability.
Source: Based on 2020 LLN Community Members.
Check out how the LLN is helping members learn and share real-time information to prepare for tomorrow and beyond.
“In health care today, we need to be more flexible and responsive to sudden change and more open to the support and guidance of others. The AHA Living Learning Network gives me the opportunity to reach out to my colleagues from across the field quickly and easily to better understand and manage a situation by looking at it from different experiences and perspectives. It opens our minds to new possibilities and it helps us build trust.”
Chief Nursing Officer/Chief Operating Officer, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children’s Hospital (Spokane, WA)
“The only way we can tackle COVID-19 is if we do it together. Since the onset of the virus, we’ve seen developments in health care that were once hard to imagine such as the rapid adoption of virtual health and its impact on the provider-patient relationship. The AHA Living Learning Network pulls together hospital and health system leaders and experts with unique, cross-functional perspectives to discuss and address rapidly changing, complex problems that have long-term implications. The diversity of experience allows this group to see risks and opportunities from different angles so that it can generate new solutions and adapt dynamically to changing situations.”
Vice President, Strategy and Innovation, White Plains Hospital (White Plains, NY)
“COVID-19 continues to demand partnership and innovation in health care. The Living Learning Network is designed to both accelerate and enhance collaboration and knowledge sharing – key factors in establishing widespread adoption of the most effective evidence-based clinical practices.”
Vice President, Clinical Quality, American Hospital Association (Chicago, IL)
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Want to learn more about the Living Learning Network and become a member? Contact PI.Team@aha.org.
The Living Learning Network (LLN) is an American Hospital Association initiative carried out through the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit subsidiary, and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).