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Hospitals and health systems are improving the patient experience by understanding implicit bias, preparing for sensitive conversations and addressing other factors that impact this part of the value equation.
The AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois today announced a joint collaboration and one-year grant program to support hospitals in eliminating health care disparities and working toward ensuring individuals in every community receive safe, equitable and high-quality care.
Hospitals and health systems are working every day to improve the patient experience and eliminate health disparities. But this work cannot be done in silos. Achieving health equity requires contributions from all of us – providers, payers, community-based organizations, public health advocates, employers and local, state and federal partners.
Hospitals and health systems are improving health outcomes by tackling disparities in their communities, write Priya Bathija, a vice president at AHA, and Duane Reynolds, president and CEO of AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity.
Hospitals and health systems can use data and metrics to guide their strategies on social needs and social determinants, writes Priya Bathija, a vice president at AHA.
Robyn Begley, AHA senior vice president and chief nursing officer for its American Organization for Nursing Leadership, and Priya Bathija, a vice president at the AHA, participated today in a panel discussion sponsored by the National Academy of Medicine’s Committee on the Future of Nursing 2020-2030.
Many hospitals and health systems are reducing costs and improving health outcomes by addressing disparities head on, write Priya Bathija, a vice president at AHA, and Duane Reynolds, president and CEO of AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity.
Three hospitals teamed up with other community groups to implement local interventions that help promote women’s health and reduce infant mortality gaps.
Potentially preventable deaths from cancer, heart disease, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease and stroke were more common in rural than urban counties between 2010 and 2017.
Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO Bernard Tyson, a renowned health care leader and champion for high-quality, affordable health care, died in his sleep Nov. 10. He was 60.
Opioid overdose death rates increased for nearly all racial and ethnic groups in metropolitan areas between 2015 and 2017.
The AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity encourages all hospitals to complete its 2019 Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Survey.
In this AHA Stat Blog, Froedtert Health Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer Andres Gonzalez, a board member at the AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, shares the Milwaukee-based organization’s strategies for enhancing health equity, diversity and inclusion.
Improving healthy equity can provide “tremendous value” to patients, communities, hospitals and the health care delivery system in the United States.
In this AHA Stat blog, Robyn Begley, AHA senior vice president and CEO of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, discusses how hiring and empowering nurses who reflect the communities they serve can improve quality and the patient experience.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack today addressed the National Association of Health Services Executives at its annual educational conference in Washington, D.C., where he stressed the importance of advancing health equity in America.
AHA’s Duane Reynolds, president and CEO of the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, and Priya Bathija, vice president of The Value Initiative, today addressed the 2019 Management Institute at Ohio State University’s Division of Health Services Management and Policy.
The AHA this week sponsored two sessions at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 2019 Annual Legislative Conference.
The AHA invites hospitals and health systems to participate in the Better Maternal Outcomes Rapid Improvement Network — a free, six-month program focused on maternal outcomes and respectful care.