Population/Community Health
These leadership videos highlight key elements for performance improvement work in hospitals and health systems: engaging C-suite leaders and board members, collecting and using data, empowering front-line staff, and ensuring performance improvement work is supported and prioritized.
Effective leadership is important to performance improvement. This video shares best practices and examples of how leaders are supporting, coordinating and prioritizing performance improvement work at their organizations.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will soon issue guidance that lays out opportunities to test new approaches to delivering and financing care for certain optional adult populations in Medicaid, CMS Administrator Seema Verma said today.
Empowering front-line staff in performance improvement efforts is key to moving this work forward.
Empowering front-line staff in performance improvement efforts is key to moving this work forward. Health care leaders discuss ways to achieve this, including modeling behavior, coaching, providing support and ensuring everyone on the team is moving in the same direction.
C-suite leaders and board members are anchors in performance improvement work.
Fourteen hospitals and health systems today pledged to commit more than $700 million to address social determinant of health needs in their communities as part of the Healthcare Anchor Network.
Trinity Health’s Transforming Communities Initiative employs policy, system and environmental strategies to improve health. Read more about the 2019 AHA NOVA Award winner.
The concept of age-friendly health systems resonates with most older patients and their caregivers, especially patients with multiple chronic conditions, according to a survey by WebMD released today by the John A. Hartford Foundation.
Collaboration between health care delivery, public health and diverse community-based organizations is essential to building healthier communities. That’s why AHA joined forces with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Association of County and City Health Officials…