The AHA's Committee on Research developed the report, "Engaging Health Care Users: A Framework fo...

March 20th, 2013
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 HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...

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This webinar from Health Resources in Action discusses the benefits of hospital-community collabo...

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The Backyard Initiative at Allina Health, based in Minnesota, is truly taking care beyond hospita...

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Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agend...

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The hospital developed a comprehensive, multidisciplinary stroke program to provide patients with...

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The treatment of asthma requires cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Ideal treatment options req...

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To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...

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The Illinois Department of Public Health, Center for Minority Services is using mobile messaging ...

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Good patient/provider communication correlates with greater patient satisfaction, increased patie...

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The Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments program seeks to enable raising com...

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Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...

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African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

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There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

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Neighborhood and environment are important determinants of health in addition to individual chara...

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Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...

March 11th, 2013
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The AHA’s framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and ...

February 4th, 2013
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From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...

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Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

January 14th, 2013
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Webinars and presentations from the New England Health Impact Assessment Training Series in 2012.

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Year after year, America’s hospitals respond to meet pressing community health care needs. In 200...

January 7th, 2013
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The Sharps Disposal Program offers a safe way for diabetics or anyone using medical sharps to dis...

January 2nd, 2013
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St. John?s Institute for Cognitive Health and the University of Utah Center for Alzheimer?s Care,...

January 2nd, 2013
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Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...

January 1st, 2013
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Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

January 1st, 2013
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Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...

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Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...

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Georgia Health Sciences Health Augusta, GA632 Beds Georgia Health Sciences Health System consist...

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Saint Elizabeth’s Medical CenterWabasha, MN25 Beds Saint Elizabeth’s Medical Center, part of Min...

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Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

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Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

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Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...

January 1st, 2013
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Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

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Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...

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Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...

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Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...

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Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders were at a higher risk of po...

January 1st, 2013
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This book provides practical skills for building communities. Chapters three, four and five addre...

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This website provides a wealth of resources on CommunityHealth Needs Assessment and the related I...

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This report details the Institute of Medicine's roundtable on population health improvement and d...

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This report discusses strategies to help health care leaders prioritize three foundational elemen...

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This report identifies steps that policy, public health and community stakeholders can take to pr...

January 1st, 2013
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Use this tool to assess whether your health-related organization or system, or coalition of organ...

January 1st, 2013
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The Community Guide is a resource for evidence-based task force recommendations and findings abou...

December 11th, 2012
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The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify ...

December 5th, 2012
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As the U.S. population ages and the number of Americans impacted by obesity and diabetes increase...

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This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way th...

December 1st, 2012
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Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

November 29th, 2012
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One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

November 26th, 2012
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A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

November 26th, 2012
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Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...

November 16th, 2012
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The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

November 16th, 2012
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 For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak c...

November 15th, 2012
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While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

November 13th, 2012
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As the patient-centered medical home model gains momentum, providers must strike a balance betwee...

November 7th, 2012
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Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...

November 5th, 2012
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The mobile app from HPOE will ensure you receive up-to-date alerts when new HPOE guides are relea...

November 2nd, 2012
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For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...

November 2nd, 2012
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Medicaid is the nation's health coverage program for the low-income population, covering , more t...

November 1st, 2012
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For the  last 15 years, public hospitals have pursued multiple strategies to help maintain financ...

November 1st, 2012
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Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician grou...

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Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...

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The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...

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This cross-site comparison of the early experience of four provider organizations participating i...

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The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...

October 30th, 2012
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At the 2012 American Public Health Association annual meeting, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spo...

October 30th, 2012
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When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

October 30th, 2012
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Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

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Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...

October 21st, 2012
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SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...

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Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

October 8th, 2012
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Diabetes is among the ten leading causes of death in both white and African American patients, bu...

October 2nd, 2012
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Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--wha...

October 1st, 2012
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Accelerating Care Integration Lack of care coordination and integration was identified as a majo...

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This webinar introduces strategies to increase physical activity through community design.

October 1st, 2012
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Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

October 1st, 2012
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The AHA is dedicated to highlighting the good work that America's hospitals are doing to care and...

September 25th, 2012
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A recent article from the Los Angeles Times looks at how the traditional doctor-patient relations...

September 13th, 2012
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Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...

August 20th, 2012
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Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

August 6th, 2012
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The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

August 1st, 2012
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This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

August 1st, 2012
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This article discusses how clinically at-risk and socially disadvantaged populations may not be f...

August 1st, 2012
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This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment  process and results, a...

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Studies suggest that the presence of multiple chronic conditions (MCC) adds a layer of complexity...

July 31st, 2012
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Health care professionals at Henry Ford Health System know how to connect with teenagers. About 1...

July 30th, 2012
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Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

July 19th, 2012
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UNC Hospitals is committed to providing a patient-centered care environment. A team of leaders is...

July 19th, 2012
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A collection of 10 short essays by the industry luminaries who have received HRET's TRUST Award s...

July 19th, 2012
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Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, after skin cancer. According to...

June 18th, 2012
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Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

June 11th, 2012
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Fully two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. One-third of American children are overwei...

June 5th, 2012
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It?s estimated that patients remember and understand about half of the information they receive f...

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This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...

June 1st, 2012
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Fairfield Memorial Hospital identified the need to improve the patient experience in the emergenc...

June 1st, 2012
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Rush-Copley Medical Center collaborated with the Kane County Health Department after an outbreak ...

June 1st, 2012
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A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educa...

June 1st, 2012
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Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

June 1st, 2012
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Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are forming in communities across the country. In ACOs, hea...

May 11th, 2012
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Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

May 7th, 2012
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