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AHA Funded Partnerships

Funded Partnerships fosters transformative health care collaborations supported by AHA and its 501c3, the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET).

Weathering the Storm: Health care facilities on the front lines of climate change response and recovery

This eBook features a collection of articles describing extreme weather events that have affected health care facilities across the country.

AHE Voices, Summer 2014

Magazine & Journal Articles
EXPLORE spoke with Brian Tallmadge, CHESP, assistant chief, Environmental Management Services, at Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, S.C., about the latest technologies available for EVS professionals.

Report recommends strengthening U.S. readiness for smallpox, related threats

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine calls for developing better diagnostics, vaccines and treatments to enhance U.S. readiness for an outbreak or attack involving smallpox or related diseases, and systems and policies that would allow public health and health care systems to respond quickly and effectively.

House committee holds field hearing on ensuring resilient emergency care

AHA March 18 shared with the House Ways and Means Committee its proposals to strengthen access to timely emergency medical care, particularly in rural and underserved areas.

Health care, public health partnership commits to action in four areas

The AHA and other founding members of the Common Health Coalition March 13 committed to action in four priority areas: coordination between health care and public health; always-on emergency preparedness; real-time disease detection; and exchange of actionable data, particularly to advance equity.

Supplemental Infection Prevention and Control Considerations

This supplement focuses on the roles of two leaders—the Facility Engineer and the Infection Preventionist—and how they can collaborate in all mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery stages.

Beyond Crisis: Learning from the Ebola Panic to Better Reach, Teach, and Reassure Employees and the Public

Presentation Resource
The 2014 Ebola panic provides a must-learn-from case study that helps us prepare for the inevitable next "epidemic"situation and improve all facets of day-to-day communications. Two veteran healthcare executives dissect what needs to change and how marketers/communicators can lead this effort.

Purchased Services & Other Indirect Spend: Resiliency for Tomorrow’s Supply Chain

Explore common indirect spend risk considerations and prepare to take steps to introduce resiliency within indirect spend categories.

An Era of Antimicrobial Resistance

Magazine & Journal Articles
Each year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that over 722,000 hospitalized patients contract a healthcare associated infection (HAI), resulting in over 75,000 deaths. In September 2013, the CDC released new evidence of emergent antimicrobial resistance threats and categorized them into categories of urgency.