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Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health: The Time is Now

Unparalleled workforce shortages, negative margins and increasing labor expenses are creating multiple challenges for hospitals and health systems — but integrating physical and behavioral health services can reduce the total cost of care, improve outcomes and improve workforce satisfaction.

Real Affordability Solutions from the Front Lines of Caring

Hospitals and health systems are where the most complex care is provided for ill and injured patients. Yet spending on inpatient and outpatient care has grown more slowly than spending on other health services. Hospitals and health systems have worked hard to provide the best value to patients and their families. Read more below.
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Issue Brief: Building a Safe Workplace and Community - Community Violence Intervention

The American Hospital Association’s Hospitals Against Violence (HAV) Advisory Group developed the Building a Safe Workplace and Community framework to guide health care leaders in their efforts to prevent and mitigate violence.

Member Issue Brief: Implementing Patient Out-of-pocket Cost Estimators

This issue brief lays out the key components of effective online tools used by hospitals and health systems to help patients understand their potential out-of-pocket costs and highlights several different approaches providers have taken.
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Issue Brief: Building a Safe Workplace and Community - Violence Mitigation in a Culture of Safety

This issue brief, the third of four in the series, examines how hospitals’ violence mitigation efforts can fit effectively into an organization’s culture of safety strategy.

Medical Device Excise Tax - What You Should Know

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The Medical Device Excise Tax, a component of the Affordable Care Act, is approaching implementation at the beginning of 2013.

AHRMM Awareness Brief: Draft Guidance for UDI Convenience Kits

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This Awareness Brief provides a quick reference to the Draft G

Alarm Safety Management

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This learning lab covers alarm safety management in the health care supply chain field.

Building a Safe Workplace and Community: Mitigating the Risk of Violence

The American Hospital Association’s Hospitals Against Violence (HAV) initiative hosted the American Society for Health Care Risk Management (ASHRM) for a facilitated dialogue to explore challenges and current strategies to mitigate the risk of violence. The discussion fostered an exchange of ideas and solutions that informed this issue brief and accompanying case studies.
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Issue Briefs

AHA's Issue briefs frame the issue of affordability and can be used by hospitals and health systems to initiate conversations with stakeholders in their communities.