Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities

San Francisco-based Tia launched in 2017 with a vision of reimagining health care with women at the center and helping them to make better decisions about their health. Now, in its first “Women’s Primary Care ‘Plus’ Outcomes Report,” the company shares data about the impact the company is having on…
The AHA’s prestigious Foster G. McGaw Prize honors health delivery organizations that have demonstrated a strategic approach to community health and addressing health disparities.
A new pediatric heart clinic in Troy, Mich., opened by Children's Hospital of Michigan, is handling pre- and post-surgical appointments for area patients, relieving them from much longer commutes to Detroit.
For National Suicide Prevention Month and National Physician Suicide Awareness Day, the Zero Suicide Institute and the Suicide Prevention in the Health Care Workforce guide provides strategies for preventing suicide in physicians and health care workers.
Berkshire Medical Center’s Operation Better Start is a collaborative effort among health care providers to help young people and their families make and sustain positive changes in their health.
Paramedics in a mobile medical unit from Henry Ford Health are visiting new mothers at home to check their vitals as part of an initiative to help reduce pregnancy-related deaths across Michigan.
In April, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics opened a new 30-room short stay unit to help ease overcrowding and streamline the hospital experience for short-term patients requiring observation
AHA and 48 national organizations' letter to Senators Klobuchar and Collins in support of the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act (S.665).
AHA and 48 other national associations express support of House and Senate legislation, the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4942, S. 665).
In this conversation, guest Kevin Barnett, senior investigator with the Public Health Institute and board member for Trinity Health, discusses what it will take for rural providers to bridge the gap between clinical care and community population health, while also improving health equity.