Chairperson's File
Blog posts from 2025 AHA Board Chair Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health, and past chairs.
At hospitals and health care systems across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are leading initiatives to achieve the Triple Aim: improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction), improving the health of populations and reducing the per capita cost of health…
Since September 2015, the AHA/HRET HEN 2.0 hospitals have been working to reduce hospital-acquired conditions by 40 percent and readmissions by 20 percent as part of the Partnership for Patients campaign. For the Health Forum/AHA Leadership Summit this past July, quality and patient safety managers…
Every aspect of a patient's experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused resources: the health care physical environment and the people who manage it. A Sept. 21 Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence webinar “Improving the Patient Experience Through the Health Care Physical…
“Every staff member counts” and “every patient counts.” With this mantra, AllianceHealth Pryor in Pryor Creek, Okla., has reduced readmissions and improved responsiveness to patient needs. Goals for the hospital's readmissions reduction project included improving…
Developing and sustaining hospital-community partnerships to address community health needs are crucial for building a Culture of Health. That is, a culture that gives every individual access to affordable, quality health care to maintain, or reclaim, health.
A vigorous approach to quality improvement at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., is achieving excellent, sustainable patient outcomes and spreading innovation. The teaching hospital is the 2016 winner of the AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize. Memorial Medical Center uses Lean Six…
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Community health needs assessments—CHNAs—are becoming a driver of community collaborations and a springboard to launch community health improvement initiatives. As such, hospitals and health systems are going beyond the required elements to make the CHNA process a more robust and…
A “Germ Crusher” challenge at Children's Hospital Colorado brought together leadership, staff, patients and families to increase hand hygiene compliance—and have fun at the same time. The 486-bed children's hospital in Aurora, Colo., launched the project over a four-week period in…
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