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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.
Issue Brief: Improving Health Equity Through Medical-Legal Partnerships
The American Hospital Association issue brief “Improving Health Equity Through Medical-Legal Partnerships” discusses how such partnerships are supporting vulnerable populations and improving individual well-being and community health, and highlights case examples and resources.
Member Issue Brief: Implementing Patient Out-of-pocket Cost Estimators
Patients have many questions when planning for their care. An important one is: How much is this going to cost me?
The Value Initiative Issue Brief: Creating Value with Age-Friendly Health Systems
With the number of older adults in the United States projected to double in the next 40 years, hospitals and health systems are adapting low-tech, value-based strategies to improve patient outcomes for older adults. This issue brief highlights ways that age-friendly care’s 4Ms Framework and measures enable value, along with case examples and considerations for becoming an Age-Friendly Health System.
Making the Case for Hospitals to Invest in Housing
Improving the health of individuals—and their neighborhoods and communities as a whole—is one of the most complex and pressing challenges in health care today. Given the inextricable link between affordable, quality housing and good health, housing is one area that hospitals and health systems are starting to focus on more and more. A new initiative, Accelerating Investments for Healthy Communities, led by the Center for Community Investment, is helping hospitals refine their community investment strategies around affordable housing. The American Hospital Association and NORC at the University of Chicago are partnering to learn from the journeys of participating hospitals and sharing initial findings in this issue brief, Making the Case for Hospitals to Invest in Housing.