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The Road to Better Health Spartanburg has proven that working collectively and in partnership with the community is more effective than working in silos when addressing community health challenges. This collaborative, established in 2008, and co-championed by the local hospital, places a strong…
In 2006 the Board of Trustees of Greenville Health System (GHS) committed to develop a workforce that was reflective in both composition and culture of the racial and ethnic makeup of the communities and patients it served, and to assure cultural competence in patient care. Consequently, they…
The Human Services Alliance of Beaufort County is one of the oldest coalitions for health improvement in the state. Beaufort Memorial Hospital (BMH) has been a key partner in the development of initiatives to address issues prioritized by the Alliance and its members; most recently, in the…
AnMed Health is a non-profit health system and the largest employer in Anderson County, South Carolina. It has achieved recognition in the National Call to Action for the Elimination of Health Care disparities through increased emphasis on recognizing and addressing the fact that “we all are…
This session describes the overall problem of human trafficking and explores how health care organizations can and are addressing issues related to human trafficking in their institutions and communities.
AHA late Friday filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Department of Health and Human Services in a federal lawsuit seeking to exclude all drugs with an orphan designation from an HHS interpretive rule expanding the 340B Drug Pricing Program to rural and cancer hospitals under the…
The AHA/HRET HEN project ended in December 2014, but quality improvement work continues at hospitals: Multidisciplinary teams work to advance improvement efforts to reach their quality and patient safety goals.