Community Partnerships

Resources to help hospitals and health systems use community investment/place-based investment to address social factors that influence health.
AHA's Population Health team brings together innovations in care to help hospitals improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities.
Thanks to a partnership between Monument Health and the Porter Project, thousands of second-grade students in the Black Hills of South Dakota received a free book — and homework for their parents.
Healthier Northshore is a collaborative initiative led by St. Tammany Health System to improve health outcomes across Louisiana’s Northshore region.
In this webinar, participants will hear from two hospital-public health department partnerships that have successfully implemented collaborative community health needs assessment (CHNAs). CHNAs create a structured process for hospitals to partner meaningfully with community stakeholders.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services June 27 announced the rollout of a 6-year technology-enabled prior authorization program pilot.
AHA podcast: Food as Medicine — How Cleveland Clinic Is Nourishing Community Health
A recent community health needs assessment conducted by Saint Francis Hospital and local organizations in Hartford, Conn., indicated that 26% of Hartford residents have difficulty paying for food and 17% have difficulty paying for housing.
Hospitals adopt community-level strategies to address social factors, partnering across sectors to shape environments where communities thrive.
Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine, made a major discovery in understanding how the brain may help regulate hearing.