The deBeaumont Foundation, with Duke Family Medicine & Community Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this week released a playbook to help multi-sector partners improve population health. The resource features more than 100 leading voices from public health, primary care, health systems, housing, transportation, business and the faith community, including a chapter by AHA Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., and Senior Program Manager Andrew Jager on the role of hospitals and health systems. Paperback and ebook versions also are available for purchase; use code AMPROMD9 to receive a 30 percent discount. 
 

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This week, more than 1,000 hospital and health system leaders came to Washington, D.C., united by a shared responsibility: to ensure every community has access…
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Mary Kate Daly, senior vice president and chief of community health of the Patrick M. Magoon Institute for Healthy Communities at Ann & Robert H. Lurie…
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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report published April 7 found that 47.2% of all U.S. adults met federal guidelines for aerobic physical activity…
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Venita Owens, president of Baylor Scott & White Health and Wellness Center, and Andrea Hayes, manager of marketing and public relations for Baylor Scott…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today that there are now 1,487 confirmed measles cases nationwide so far this year. The CDC said 5% of…
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Early-bird registration rates for the AHA’s Healthier Together Conference end March 31. This inaugural conference on community health…