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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
The Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments program seeks to enable raising com...
Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...
There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...
Neighborhood and environment are important determinants of health in addition to individual chara...
Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...
The AHA’s framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and ...
Year after year, America’s hospitals respond to meet pressing community health care needs. In 200...
The Sharps Disposal Program offers a safe way for diabetics or anyone using medical sharps to dis...
St. John?s Institute for Cognitive Health and the University of Utah Center for Alzheimer?s Care,...
Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...
Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...
Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...
Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...
Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders were at a higher risk of po...
This book provides practical skills for building communities. Chapters three, four and five addre...
This website provides a wealth of resources on CommunityHealth Needs Assessment and the related I...
The Community Guide is a resource for evidence-based task force recommendations and findings abou...
One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...
Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...
For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak c...
While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...
For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...
Medicaid is the nation's health coverage program for the low-income population, covering , more t...
For the last 15 years, public hospitals have pursued multiple strategies to help maintain financ...
Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician grou...
Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...
This cross-site comparison of the early experience of four provider organizations participating i...
The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...
When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...
Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...
Diabetes is among the ten leading causes of death in both white and African American patients, bu...
Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--wha...
This webinar introduces strategies to increase physical activity through community design.
The AHA is dedicated to highlighting the good work that America's hospitals are doing to care and...
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...
Studies suggest that the presence of multiple chronic conditions (MCC) adds a layer of complexity...
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, after skin cancer. According to...
Fully two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. One-third of American children are overwei...
It?s estimated that patients remember and understand about half of the information they receive f...
This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...
Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are forming in communities across the country. In ACOs, hea...
This guide provides hospital leaders with a snapshot of hospitals' current readiness to participa...
To meet patient needs in the current market, hospitals have traditionally focused their efforts o...
This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients ...