Chairperson's File
Blog posts from 2025 AHA Board Chair Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health, and past chairs.
Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health care leaders: leaders who ensure care is provided systematically and who remain committed to achieving the highest levels of quality. The Comprehensive Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship, a program…
A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland encompasses all of these things and more to achieve quality and safety. In a just and transparent culture, all employees are encouraged to voice their…
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has established a true partnership with its community, which includes a diverse population and economic challenges for many. In addition to 160,000 ED and 440,000 ambulatory care visits, the medical center connects…
Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Lutheran's care coordination program has achieved remarkable results. The program has not only improved patient outcomes but also reduced health care costs. The 325-bed health system, based in La Crosse…
By 're-engineering'discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chester, Penn., has halved its readmission rate for congestive heart failure patients. 'We think of the discharge process as bundled processes of care beginning with admission,' says Carli Meister, R.N.,…
Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in Madison, Wis., has used the Baldrige National Quality framework. The hospital board's quality of health care committee sets quality aims that include targeting zero health care-associated infections…
Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., describes an innovative program to improve the health of the community it serves in southern Broward County. Memorial's Health Intervention with Targeted Services (HITS) program also aims to reduce…
Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Regional Medical Center, Salisbury, NC, has developed a disease management program aimed at reducing readmissions. Work started with the Igloo initiative at RRMC and has expanded to a project funded…
May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Office of Women's Health. This celebration provides an opportunity to highlight how you can use this website to focus on a specific patient population like women or a specific topic area like…
Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community with clinical interventions at the local level. About three years ago, the Alliance decided to focus on population health. Billings Clinic, a not-for-profit health care organization based in Billings, Mont…