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Redefining the ‘H’
Health care is changing…and hospitals and health systems are transforming to meet the evolving needs of our patients and communities.
AHA Board Member Rob Casalou Discusses Focusing on the Consumer, Community Health
The Class of 2020 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year.
How You’re Transforming: Partners HealthCare
Innovation labs and centers of excellence continue to take shape as health care organizations look for ways to speed delivery system transformation and control costs better. Partners HealthCare, the Boston-based nonprofit and physicians’ network, became the latest to step up its activity in this space.
Commentary paints incomplete picture of coordinated networks of care
“Competition? It’s What the Doctor Ordered” paints an incomplete picture of how coordinated networks of care among hospitals and health systems affect health care delivery. Not only does it leave out many key facts on the benefits to patients and communities…it also attempts to draw broad conclusions based on limited and incomparable studies and data.
Providence Health System Transitioning from Acute Care to New Types of Services
In an effort to make care more accessible to its changing community, Washington, D.C.-based Providence Health System will transition out of acute care services by the end of 2018 and will instead offer care coordination, telehealth services and virtual care, primary and urgent care, home care, community-based behavioral health care, senior care and more, the organization said in a statement.
HHS issues RFI on anti-kickback statute, beneficiary inducement CMPs
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General seeks comments on how it can modify the anti-kickback statute and exceptions to the beneficiary inducements civil monetary penalty definition of “remuneration.”
AHA Issue Brief on Meeting Complex Needs of Older Adults Across Care Settings
A new AHA issue brief offers a prototype practice model to help hospitals and health systems meet the complex needs of older adults across care settings.
Panel to Create National Plan to Accelerate Patient Safety Progress
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement today convened a national steering committee, whose members include the AHA, to create a national plan to accelerate patient safety progress across the care continuum.
Project ACHIEVE Pilot Study on Care Transitions Reports Results
Patients discharged from the hospital and those who care for them would like hospitals to communicate in a supportive, collaborative and purposeful way, anticipate and explain how they will address their needs, and ensure continuity of care, according to a pilot study by Project ACHIEVE.