Chairperson's File
Blog posts from 2025 AHA Board Chair Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health, and past chairs.
More than 90 percent of U.S. hospitals are committed to population health. This is according to a recent survey conducted by the AHA's Health Research & Educational Trust and the Association for Community Health Improvement.
The Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence website highlights quality improvement stories at hundreds of hospitals and health care systems across the country. These stories describe the results, challenges and lessons learned from successful initiatives to improve operational excellence; population/…
What does it take to be a winner? Children's Hospital Colorado received the 2015 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize for its work toward achieving the six Institute of Medicine aims for quality care: safe, effective, patient centered, timely, efficient and equitable. Patient safety…
Teamwork champions on a diverse change team: These were key as The MetroHealth System in Cleveland enhanced its patient safety culture and engaged and empowered staff using TeamSTEPPS®—Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety. The 700-bed public health care…
Apps and iPads are tools of choice for improving the health of Pennsylvania schoolchildren. Lehigh Valley Health Network, in Allentown, Penn., collaborated with the Allentown and Bethlehem school districts, a local business coalition and three other health organizations—all part of the…
Addressing the complex needs of older patients and their caregivers is the focus of the Bridge Model. Developed by Rush University of Medical Center's Health and Aging Department and several community partners in Chicago, this model of transitional care emphasizes care continuity and…
The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health System. In 2011, the Detroit health care system revised its process for collecting race, ethnicity and language preference (REAL) data from patients. Now HFHS has become an advocate for collecting and…
A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care systems and the community and successfully reducing hypertension for many residents. The University of Rochester Medical Center and Rochester Regional Health are partners in the Blood Pressure Advocate…
For more information, contact Ryan P. Parker, chief diversity officer and assistant vice president, diversity and inclusion, at ryan.parker@rwjuh.edu. To read the case study, download Diversity in Health Care: Examples from the Field here.
Two health care systems and more than 20 community organizations are improving the health and wellness of residents in the city of Whittier, Calif., by sharing resources, skills, assets and knowledge. In 2007, PIH Health and Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center conducted community health needs…