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Advancing Health is the American Hospital Association’s podcast series. Podcasts feature conversations with hospital and health system leaders on a variety of issues that impact patients and communities.

Understanding and addressing individual and group behavior is essential in order for teams to meet their goals and serve their patients. The AHA’s Physician Alliance has interviewed several clinician leaders to understand how hospital leaders can make medicine kinder, safer, and more reliable
Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA's strategic initiatives and Dr. Bob Pendleton, Chief Medical Quality Officer of University of Utah Healthcare come together again to discuss how University of Utah Healthcare is looking at value as a result of COVID-19.
AHA has tracked the stories of several rural community hospitals as part of our coverage of COVID-19. Those stories and their podcasts may be found on the AHA website. As part of this series we share how rural hospitals have found new ways of delivering care to patients under COVID-19. Today, we…
In this conversation, Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of the AHA’s Physician Alliance and interim executive lead for the AHA’s Institute for Diversity an Health Equity, talks with two health system chief diversity officers about their efforts to learn more about the patients they are serving…
As humans, we respond to our environment. The physical space around us can — and does — affect mood, energy, creatively and productivity. It also has a big effect on health care workspaces, where innovative new designs are responding to COVID-19, but also to longer term trends in hospital care..
In this podcast, Priya Bathija, vice president of The Value Initiative at the AHA, and Carol Vargas, Vice President, Integrated Care and Dr. Sylvia Romm, Chief Innovation Officer, both at Atlantic Health, discuss COVID-19’s impact on telehealth and integrated care.
With COVID-19 on the rise, hospitals and other organizations are leveraging technology to expand outreach to patients and communities. In this podcast, Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative, speaks with Kaakpema Yelpaala, founder and CEO of access.mobile again about using…
In this podcast, Nancy Myers, vice president of leadership and system innovation at the AHA interviews, Nancy Combs, Henry Ford Health System’s director of community health integration.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about new challenges for health care providers including the way teams communicate and work together. In this first of a two-part podcast, Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president, AHA Physician Alliance, sits down with two senior leaders from New York City-based…
In the second of this two-part podcast, Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president, AHA Physician Alliance, speaks with leaders at Henry Ford Health System discussing learnings and experiences as a result of COVID, specifically taking a look at the role of collaboration between clinical and administrative…