AHA/HRET Guides
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A complete list of every HPOE/HRET guide created since 2010. This list features nearly 80 guides ...
“Transportation and the Role of Hospitals” is part of a series of guides and resources released b...
This toolkit, released by the AHA, provides guidance and information to hospitals and health syst...
As a new generation of payment and delivery system reform emerges, much focus has been on a subse...
This compendium features detailed descriptions of hospital-community partnerships from across the...
“Housing and the Role of Hospitals” is the second guide released by the AHA, HRET and ACHI as par...
Advancing population health involves fostering effective and sustainable hospital-community partn...
As part of our work to Advance Health in America, the AHA, HRET and ACHI are launching a series o...
The American Hospital Association and the Health Research & Educational Trust are working to supp...
There is a critical need to elevate the discussion around workforce planning and development to e...
The next generation of community health will serve as the foundation for total population health....
The Association for Healthcare Volunteer Resource Professionals created a guide to help hospitals...
In response to a rapidly transforming health care environment, hospitals and health systems acros...
Hospitals are working to achieve all elements of the Triple Aim by redesigning traditional ways o...
Hospitals can create a culture of health in their own organization and in the community by develo...
While much work has been done in the hospital setting, patient falls continue to be a problem. As...
The AHA's Physician Leadership Forum and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative have relea...
Effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships are critical to building a Culture of H...
This HPOE guide, developed by Kaufman Hall, provides key considerations in partnering for populat...
As nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. complete a community health needs assessments (CHNA) process, ...
This guide features case studies of the 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize winner and finalists. These ex...
Across the United States, nonprofit hospitals are conducting community health needs assessments, ...
This AHA report provides a review of the current state for the behavioral health workforce, outli...
A key component to making patient care safer is to track your data and progress towards improveme...
This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...
The new HPOE guide “Triple Aim Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Care” describes strategie...
Hospitals and health care systems are striving to achieve the Triple Aim—improving the patient ex...
The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) developed this compendium to link patient and fami...
Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three exampl...
A new HPOE Guide “Increasing Supplier Diversity in Health Care” provides action steps and case st...
To support hospitals embarking on their population health journey, the Health Research & Educatio...
Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...
Diversity is becoming a key word in health care. Hospitals and health care systems are focusing o...
Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...
The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...
HPOE and Leavitt Partners worked in collaboration to detail how accountable care organizations (A...
Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations. In 2...
To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...
Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...
This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...
U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...
This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from "2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchma...
This guide provides a framework for hospitals and care systems to stratify patient race, ethnicit...
Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...
Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...
Equity of Care, in collaboration with the Institute for Diversity in Health Management is featuri...
Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and intrusions pose risks for every hospital and its reputation. Wh...
With the rise in higher-deductible health plans and coinsurance, Americans are paying an increasi...
The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...
Building off the 2013 HPOE guide on value-based contracting this guide provides additional financ...
This updated chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of...
This guide explains why hospital leaders should explore sustainability strategies for their organ...
Moving from a volume-based payment model to a value-based payment model requires a new set of man...
This guide builds upon prior American Hospital Association reports that outline a road map for ho...
This Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence guide explains the value of integrating physical and beha...
Generational differences—one factor of diversity—are changing workforce dynamics. Traditionalists...
This guide is a synopsis of a conversation held at the Association for Healthcare Resource & Mate...
Results from an Association for Community Health Improvement and American Hospital Association Su...
This HPOE presentation highlights the business imperative for equity of care. As the health care...
As health care leaders implement diverse improvement projects, from reducing hospital-acquired in...
This guide includes two sections that address collection and use of patient race, ethnicity and l...
This annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health c...
This guide describes a three-step action plan from the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project that helps...
The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...
This resource gives hospital and health system leaders concrete, practical steps grounded on evid...
The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...
The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care ac...
Cultural competency in health care describes the ability of systems to provide care to patients w...
To become an effective population health manager, a hospital must create effective partnerships. ...
"Metrics for the Second Curve of Health Care" expands on four strategies originally identified in...
The AHA’s framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and ...
In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...
This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patien...
A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...
Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...
A monograph from the Association of American Medical Colleges, in partnership with the Institute ...
Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...
In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...
There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...
Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...
Authored by Kaufman Hall executives, this guide describes the groundwork and prerequisites requir...
“End of life care,” “serious illness” or “advanced illness” are some of the terms used to categor...
PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...
The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...
This chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of care th...
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...
As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...
This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...
Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...
Achieving health care equity and eliminating health care disparities are a top goal of hospitals ...
Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...
This toolkit provides a comprehensive approach to the collection of race, ethnicity and primary l...
The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...
As America's hospitals and health systems are transforming care, hospitals are facing challenges ...
Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...
This guide serves to explore the concept of cultural competency and build the case for the enhanc...
This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...
Racial and socioeconomic inequity persists in health care quality. An exploratory interview with ...