Conway (Arkansas) Regional Health System was beginning to work toward 2020 goals and priorities when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Here’s how the leadership team refocused priorities, using a three-pronged approach to address challenges.
Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources and Special Communications
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As COVID-19 rages across America, hospitals and health systems and their extraordinary staffs continue to bring care and comfort to our communities.
In this conversation, Elisa Arespacochaga, Interim Executive Lead, Institute for Diversity & Health Equity and Vice President, AHA Physician Alliance, talks with Andrea Custis, President and CE
As Congress continues to negotiate a year-end spending package and more COVID-19 relief, we’re continuing to keep you updated on the latest issues. This is our third Action Alert related to the lame-duck session, and information and resources related to our priority issues are included below.
Augusta Health, in Fishersville, Virginia, partnered with the Allegheny Mountain Institute to create the AMI Farm at Augusta Health, which provides food for use at the hospital, serves as a hub for nutrition and sustainable agriculture education and offers nutrient-dense foods to community members facing chronic illness or limited food access. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Augusta Health has used data analytics derived from social determinants of health screening to drive outreach in the community focused on food access and other initiatives.
The AHA will host two important calls for hospital and health system leaders on issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
When setting up a monoclonal antibody (mAb) infusion therapy treatment space, COVI-19 positive patients should be treated in a setting that is readily accessible, separate from any immunocompromised in- or outpatient populations, and proximate from a campus perspective to the pharmacy that would be responsible for preparing treatment regime.
With COVID-19 increasing patients’ pain and morbidity and exacerbating high levels of clinician burnout and moral distress, integrating palliative and critical care “has never been more crucial,” according to the authors of an article in December’s Critical Care Nurse.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted two requests for information last week.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched its Acute Hospital Care at Home program in November to increase the capacity of the health care system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asking asymptomatic COVID-exposed staff to work and using 36-hour shifts are among the strategies hospitals have employed to cope with severe nurse staffing shortages during the current wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Leveraging peer support and employee assistance programs to assist distressed colleagues and celebrating victories to spotlight the positive impact of nurses’ work are among the best practices nurse leaders are using to address the mental and emotional trauma experienced by hospital staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adequate staffing, sufficient protective equipment, more emotional support and a request administrators spend time shadowing nurses are among the local solutions proposed by nurses on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A July survey of 1,824 nurse leaders from AONL and Joslin Marketing identified the lack of a playbook, shortage of personal protective equipment and supplies, ever-changing information, changes in culture dynamics and financial impact as the top challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The current surge in COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths has pushed the health care system into crisis. The Tri-Council for Nursing continues to assess the situation, share information, and determine ways we can help mitigate the current burden on the nursing profession and provide constructive recommendations for the future.
Please join AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., for the tenth in a series of Leadership Rounds. Dr. Estes is joined by Claire Zangerle, MSN, MBA, RN, Chief Nurse Executive at Allegheny Health Network (AHN), to discuss how hospitals can move from relief, recovery, and rebuilding to reimagining and innovation.
John Riggi, AHA senior advisor for cybersecurity and risk, testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on defending communities from cyber threats during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The AHA asks the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take additional steps to increase flexibilities for providers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A new analysis prepared by the American Hospital Association (AHA) highlights commercial health insurance practices that contribute to burnout in the clinical workforce and make it more difficult for some Americans to access the care they need.