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Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health: The Time is Now
Unparalleled workforce shortages, negative margins and increasing labor expenses are creating multiple challenges for hospitals and health systems — but integrating physical and behavioral health services can reduce the total cost of care, improve outcomes and improve workforce satisfaction.
Medical Device Excise Tax - What You Should Know
Issue Brief
The Medical Device Excise Tax, a component of the Affordable Care Act, is approaching implementation at the beginning of 2013.
AHRMM Awareness Brief: Draft Guidance for UDI Convenience Kits
Issue Brief
This Awareness Brief provides a quick reference to the Draft G
Alarm Safety Management
Issue Brief
This learning lab covers alarm safety management in the health care supply chain field.
Integrated Behavioral Health is High-value Care
This issue brief examines how integration can take various forms based on provider, patient and community needs and how telebehavioral health can help in areas with shortages of behavioral health professionals.
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 Briefs
AHA's Issue briefs frame the issue of affordability and can be used by hospitals and health systems to initiate conversations with stakeholders in their communities.
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.
The Value Initiative Issue Brief: Measuring the Value of Team-based Care: A Dashboard for Health Care Organizations
Learn about real-life examples of hospitals that have utilized team-based care to improve value.