The 2016 chairman's columns have focused on  inspiring stories about hospitals and health systems...

December 19th, 2016

When hospitals engage community members and patients in the community health assessment process, ...

December 1st, 2016
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Community health needs assessments—CHNAs—are becoming a driver of community collaborations and a ...

July 18th, 2016
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Across the United States, nonprofit hospitals are conducting community health needs assessments, ...

June 9th, 2016
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An intervention to prevent childhood obesity has blossomed into a communitywide effort led by a l...

May 23rd, 2016
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Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...

June 22nd, 2015
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This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

March 10th, 2015
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U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...

January 28th, 2015
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California's Central Valley is known for its abundant fruits and vegetables; however, many famili...

November 1st, 2014
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The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, a partner of the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, ...

November 1st, 2014
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A growing number of hospitals are engaged in community economic development, recognizing the impo...

March 19th, 2014
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This article discusses the importance of a holistic approach to community development in order to...

October 17th, 2013
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After a decade of war and an unprecedented number of combat deployments, our service members, vet...

September 17th, 2013
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This article aims to define the term "healthy communities" based on existing literature on the to...

July 25th, 2013
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The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...

March 12th, 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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In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...

January 1st, 2013
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This webinar introduces strategies to increase physical activity through community design.

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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How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed crit...

October 17th, 2011
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How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed crit...

October 17th, 2011
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The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

September 1st, 2010
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