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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
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 ...
HRET and the Commonwealth Fund reviewed research findings regarding the characteristics and proce...
As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...
The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...
Baylor Health Care SystemDallas, TX3,653 Beds The Problem The Baylor Health Care System Office o...
Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...
Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...
SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...
This article discusses the imperitive to invest in community development as a means to improve po...
This article discusses the socioeconomic factors necessary for health in a community. The author ...
This report discusses the strenghts of community disease prevention offers and presents a framewo...