AHA Physician Alliance
A component of the Atlantic Health System in northern New Jersey, Atlantic Medical Group (AMG) comprises 3,500 employees covering 316 locations and over 65 specialties. Of these employees, there are currently more than 1,000 clinician members (physicians and advanced practice clinicians). In…
The AHA Physician Alliance explores some of the key elements driving the success of the Prescribe Safe Initiative, an extremely successful community-based project bringing together law enforcement, hospitals and physicians to reduce prescription medication misuse.
In 2018, the ABIM Foundation embraced a new focus – examining issues of trust in health care and how trust contributes to better health care outcomes, increased patient satisfaction and greater physician well-being. Hear more about the work the ABIM Foundation is doing to build and sustain trusting…
The AHA Physician Alliance today released a resource to help hospital and health system leaders address burnout in their organizations.
In conjunction with the Health Forum/AHA Leadership Summit in July 2012, the PLF, along with the Society for Hospital Medicine, hosted an interactive half-day session designed to explore how hospital-based medical practice is evolving to re-shape care delivery in the hospital of the future.
Based on the work of the Regional Policy Boards and the Advisory Group on Physician Competency Development the PLF developed recommendations to the field and published them as a white paper Lifelong Learning: Physician Competency Development in June 2012. An excerpt was published in the Journal of…
Together with the American College of Physician Executives, the PLF held a half-day session in July 2013 to better understand the changing landscape and the leadership competencies physicians will need to be effective partners with hospitals and health systems and move toward a more accountable and…
In October 2013, the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Hospital Association (AHA) came together to convene a Joint Leadership Conference on New Models of Care in Washington, D.C. in collaboration with Health Affairs. This exclusive meeting brought together hospital…
A new report from the AHA’s Physician Alliance recommends ways to improve the value of continuing medical education to hospitals. Hospitals provided 35% of the accredited CME in 2013, investing close to $1 billion. “CME allows physicians to reach their full potential both as caregivers and leaders…
With the ongoing transformation of health care delivery, care models which partner physicians and hospitals as co-leaders of the clinical enterprise are rapidly emerging. More than 100 physician and hospital executives gathered for this half-day complimentary program to learn about two care models…