Community Health Improvement Week is a time to highlight hospitals partnering to enhance health and well-being.
Population/Community Health
Bartlett Regional Hospital launched a behavioral health Mobile Crisis Program in conjunction with the hospital, psychiatric clinicians and paramedics who answer 911 and 988 calls related to suicidality, depression, substance use disorders and other mental health crises.
A state-funded program for the unhoused at Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, has transformed a once informal overnight drop-in situation into a structured pathway to shelter, services and lasting stability.
Sarah Stella, M.D., director of Denver Health’s Housing Outreach, Partnerships and Engagement program, or HOPE, reveals how Denver Health is helping some of the community’s most vulnerable patients move from crisis to stability.
The American Hospital Association recently honored five organizations striving to improve community health through collaboration by naming them recipients of this year’s Dick Davidson NOVA Awards.
Funded Partnerships fosters transformative health care collaborations supported by AHA and its 501c3, the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET).
Join us June 16 or June 25 to learn about ACHI’s new Community Health and Environment Toolkit, designed for hospital and health system teams working with community partners to address local health impacts at a population level.
One of the most pressing opportunities to reduce health care spending is to mitigate the need for high-cost interventions by preventing the onset of illness and injury.
In the early 2000s, Bartlett Regional Hospital launched its Multi-Visit Program (MVP) to support the case management of vulnerable patients who were visiting the emergency department up to 20 times per month.
Attendees at the AHA Healthier Together Conference in Dallas participated in pre-conference workshops, breakout sessions, table conversations, networking opportunities and community immersion experiences.