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Design Thinking: The Principles and Practices Of Human-Centered Design in Healthcare
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Building Community Health
Trustee Articles
In pursuit of its longstanding vision of a “society of healthy communities where all individuals reach their highest potential for health,” the American Hospital Association supports hospitals, health systems and related organizations in engaging in strategic initiatives that together create a path toward advancing health in America.
Empowering Board Members to Improve Population Health through Value-Based Care
Trustee Articles
The U.S. health care system is quickly moving toward a care delivery model that encompasses entire populations, not just the patients who present themselves for care. This is because many at-risk individuals in the community seldom, if ever, seek treatment or health screenings—and they have a disproportionate impact on total health care spending.
Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities
Trustee Articles
The American Hospital Association (AHA) Board of Trustees, in 2015, created a task force to address these challenges and examine ways in which hospitals can help ensure access to health care services in vulnerable communities. The task force considered a number of integrated, comprehensive strategies to reform health care delivery and payment. Their report sets forth a menu of options from which
communities may select based on their unique needs, support structures and preferences.
Leadership Role of Nonprofit Health Systems in Improving Community Health
Trustee Articles
This report discusses the complex challenges involved in community health improvement and makes the case for why health systems should take a substantial role in the multi-sector collaboration needed to achieve significant impact.
Population Health: Considerations for Hospital and Health System Boards
Trustee Articles
An aging population, increasing rates of chronic disease and the onset of value-based payment structures are among the many drivers that have moved hospitals and health systems in recent years to take a more prominent role in disease prevention, health promotion, and other public health initiatives.
Partnering in the New Health Care Environment: 5 Questions for Boards
Trustee Articles
Health care is transforming to a value-based model, with the goals of improved care quality, access and outcomes for consumers, at lower costs. The means of achieving these goals is the effective management of health and health care services over the continuum of a population’s care and service needs.
Learnings on Governance from Partnerships that Improve Community Health
Trustee Articles
Hospitals’ and health systems’ accountability and commitment to their communities are not only for the care provided within the organizations’ walls, but also for improving the overall health of the communities they serve. Many are acting on that commitment by striving to achieve the goals of the Triple Aim.
Community Partnership Profiles: Learnings on Governance from Partnerships that Improve Community Health
Trustee Articles
Lessons Learned from Foster G. McGaw Prize Recipients Community Partnership Profiles - Advances in Health Care Governance Series
A Foundation for Improving Social Determinants of Health
Trustee Articles
Philanthropy can drive innovative initiatives to address social, economic, educational and quality of life issues in the community.