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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
As the U.S. health care system transforms, hospitals are playing a greater role in building a cul...
Truven Health Analytics discusses key areas of focus for hospitals and care systems that want to ...
In August 2014, Campbell County Health became the first health care facility in Wyoming to be app...
Creating a culture of health requires community partnerships with every major stakeholder contrib...
There is often confusion around what is meant by the term “population health.” HPOE and the Assoc...
Montefiore Medical Center's School Health Program is the largest and most comprehensive school-ba...
How is your hospital building a culture of health in the community? That is, a culture in which a...
Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...
Health care organizations are in varying stages of clinical and financial integration as they pur...
To address the widespread lack of access to basic health care, community health centers serve mor...
Improving population health is a must-do strategy in transforming health care delivery. Yale New ...
This issue brief continues the program’s examination of state-level community benefit oversight b...
As our nation's population becomes more diverse, health care organizations are continuously prese...
Using a Community Needs Assessment, Morris Hospital, which serves 18 rural communities, identifie...
After identifying inequities with affordable access to primary care services and an uncoordinated...
Population health is receiving increased attention for its role in improving health care, specifi...
The “second curve” of population health involves an integrated approach to improving patient and ...
As of March 2014, progress generally has been positive toward achieving the HP2020 targets for th...
This guide builds upon prior American Hospital Association reports that outline a road map for ho...
A growing number of hospitals are engaged in community economic development, recognizing the impo...
Results from an Association for Community Health Improvement and American Hospital Association Su...
This article discusses opportunities for health care providers to leverage Affordable Care Act re...
This article discusses how using health adjusted life expectacy could bridge the gap between clin...
This article discusses the importance of a holistic approach to community development in order to...
Newark Department of Child and Family Well-BeingNewark NJ The Problem In 2003, The Newark (N.J.)...
This articles explores how HealthPartners decided to target nonclinical determinants of populatio...
This toolkit provides a framework for creating interventions that promote the Healthy People 2020...
This article aims to define the term "healthy communities" based on existing literature on the to...
In California, about 16 percent of the adult population, more than 4 million people, have mental ...
This article discusses how six organizations in Oakland, Calif., used a health impact assessment ...
There is a growing need to improve health care, especially at the interface between general medic...
Everyone is talking “population health management,” and many health care organizations are succes...
Being accessible only by airplane or boat adds to the scenic character of Wrangell, Alaska (popul...
No single organization can effectively address complex community health issues such as access to ...
To become an effective population health manager, a hospital must create effective partnerships. ...
June 2–8 is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement s...
Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health CenterWindsor, VT60 Beds The Problem Mt. Ascutney Hospital and ...
This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...
In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center and Cheyenne Health and Wellness Center partner on several initi...
Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...
ProMedica’s (NW Ohio and SE Michigan) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the peop...
This webinar examined best practices and lessons from the field on health care transformation ini...
The AHA's Committee on Research developed the report, "Engaging Health Care Users: A Framework fo...
Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agend...
To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...
The Illinois Department of Public Health, Center for Minority Services is using mobile messaging ...
The Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments program seeks to enable raising com...
Neighborhood and environment are important determinants of health in addition to individual chara...
The AHA’s framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and ...
From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...
Webinars and presentations from the New England Health Impact Assessment Training Series in 2012.
Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...
Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...
Georgia Health Sciences Health Augusta, GA632 Beds Georgia Health Sciences Health System consist...
Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...
Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...
This website provides a wealth of resources on CommunityHealth Needs Assessment and the related I...
This report details the Institute of Medicine's roundtable on population health improvement and d...
This report discusses strategies to help health care leaders prioritize three foundational elemen...
This report identifies steps that policy, public health and community stakeholders can take to pr...
The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify ...
This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way th...
The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...
For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak c...
Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...
At the 2012 American Public Health Association annual meeting, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spo...
Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...
This webinar introduces strategies to increase physical activity through community design.
The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...
This commentary was written by Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...
This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment process and results, a...
Fully two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. One-third of American children are overwei...
This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...
Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...