Community Health Improvement Week is a time to highlight hospitals partnering to enhance health and well-being.
Population/Community Health
This week, more than 1,000 hospital and health system leaders came to Washington, D.C., united by a shared responsibility: to ensure every community has access to high‑quality, affordable care — today and in the years ahead.
Epic Research has introduced county-level monitoring for communicable health conditions. The research division of Epic Systems will publish Health Alerts indicating higher than typical rates identified by statistical models utilizing information from real-world medical records.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report published April 7 found that 47.2% of all U.S. adults met federal guidelines for aerobic physical activity in 2024.
Nearly 40% of Rhode Island households are food insecure, according to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank and other sources. Providence VA Medical Center is working to meet the needs of veterans who are food insecure, including homeless veterans.
Venita Owens, president of Baylor Scott & White Health and Wellness Center, and Andrea Hayes, manager of marketing and public relations for Baylor Scott & White, discuss how medical care, nutrition, education and fitness are coming together to support underserved populations in Dallas.
Early-bird registration rates for the AHA’s Healthier Together Conference end March 31. This inaugural conference on community health, care delivery transformation and reducing disparities in health outcomes will be held May 12-14 in Dallas. Visit the conference…
In this Advancing Health encore episode, Duke University's Anna Tharakan, lead project manager on Closing the Gap on Hypertension Disparities, and Bradi Granger, Ph.D., research professor at Duke University School of Nursing and director of the Duke Heart Center Nursing Research Program, discuss…
The Foster G. McGaw Prize recognizes hospitals that have distinguished themselves through efforts to improve the health and well-being of everyone in their communities.
In this conversation, Doug Brown, partner with Manatt Health and current chair of the American Hospital Association's Foster G. McGaw Prize Committee, discusses how hospitals are tackling food insecurity, workforce development, safe neighborhoods, and other social drivers of health.