Chairperson's File
Blog posts from 2025 AHA Board Chair Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health, and past chairs.
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…
Each year, the Illinois Hospital Association recognizes and celebrates the achievements of Illinois hospitals in continually improving and transforming health care in the state. These hospitals and health systems are improving health by striving to achieve the Triple Aim—improving the patient…
Working with community organizations, including competitors, Palmetto Health is improving the health of its patient population. The 1,138-bed, nonprofit health care system is located in Columbia, South Carolina, a state with a relatively large number of uninsured residents at higher risk of…
National attention to the issue of antibiotic stewardship is increasing. Drug-resistant bacteria cause 2 million illnesses and about 23,000 deaths each year in the U.S., the CDC estimates. At a White House forum on the topic in June 2015, Jonathan Perlin, M.D., shared information about what the AHA…
May 31 - June 6, 2015, is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement established this week to raise awareness and increase understanding of how community health strategies complement, though they remain distinct from, individual medical care. Visit the ACHI…
Patient engagement is paramount to reducing readmissions and improving quality of life. That's what is driving Beebe CAREs, launched in 2012 by Beebe Healthcare, based in Lewes, Del. Patients establish goals, framed not by a physiological measure but by a life event or activity: attending a child's…
At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are leading successful initiatives to improve quality, patient safety, clinical integration, population health and much more. The Hospitals in Pursuit of…
Scorecards aren't just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track outcomes and improve quality and patient safety—and more. Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, in southeast Wisconsin, implemented a diversity recruitment and retention scorecard that has prompted…