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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.
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.
Issue Brief: Patients and Providers Faced with Increasing Delays in Timely Discharges
Patients requiring additional care after a hospitalization — such as skilled nursing, behavioral health or therapy-at-home — face growing delays in accessing that care. Delays in discharges as patients move through the continuum of care can cause harm to patients’ health outcomes and can impact their quality of life by slowing their recovery.
Data Brief: Workforce Issues Remain at the Forefront of Pandemic-related Challenges for Hospitals
As demand for hospital care remains high and patient acuity for both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 care has increased, hospitals and health systems are facing a critical shortage of workers necessary to meet that demand.
Physician Leadership Circle
The AHA Physician Alliance regularly convenes senior physician executives as part of its Physician Leadership Circle for high-level conversations around issues facing physician leaders.
U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps
Issue Brief
United States Cadet Nurse Corps was authorized by the U.S. Congress and signed into law in July 1943. It was a non-discriminatory program. Its purpose was to help alleviate the nursing shortage which existed during World War II. This legislation would provide honorable discharges, medal privileges and veteran burial benefits to nurses who served in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.
National Labor Relations Board Update
Issue Brief
[REPORT]: This document by G. Roger King, senior labor and employment counsel of the HR Policy Association, outlines the recent updates of significant Board decisions and rulemaking initiatives.