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How Hospital Food Can Fuel Sustainability Efforts
Plant-based meals are gaining popularity at many health care facilities, transforming hospital food from a punch line into a driver for getting patients to embrace more healthful food choices while improving sustainability and patient satisfaction.
Tampa General Hospital Implements Virtual Hospital Platform
To enhance patient care and transform the way care teams communicate and collaborate, Tampa (Florida) General Hospital (TGH) is expanding its use of the virtual hospital platform ThinkAndor Virtual Hospital from Andor Health in its intensive care unit and plans to expand to other care teams.
6 Ways to Build a Rewards Strategy to Retain Nurse Managers
As hospitals and health system executives refine strategies to improve recruitment and retention of nurses, particularly nurse leaders, nonsalary forms of compensation may need closer scrutiny. Most strategies tend to focus on role, scope, span of control, empowerment, recognition and professional development, notes the AHA’s American Organization for Nursing Leadership’s (AONL’s) Nursing Leadership Workforce Compendium.
How to Optimize Sustainability Performance
A new AHA Leadership Scan episode will explore how some hospitals and health systems have developed more resilient and proactive approaches to identifying, vetting and purchasing sustainable products.
Will Walgreens, Walmart Value-based Care Plays Pay Off?
Walgreens last week entered into a strategic partnership with Pearl Health, a technology platform for primary care physicians in value-based care arrangements. Just days earlier, Bloomberg reported that Walmart was exploring the purchase of a majority stake in ChenMed, a value-based care organization of more than 125 primary care clinics in 15 states focused on treating older adults. The respective moves have some analysts questioning just how much the retailers could gain from these initiatives given that the companies have had difficulty to date showing positive financial returns for their hefty health care investments.
How Artificial Intelligence Can Support Precision Heart Care
A new AHA Leadership Scan episode will examine how one AI-powered system was developed from 10 million images of patients’ hearts gathered over a 15-year period from more than 40,000 patients in landmark, multicenter clinical trials.
A Private-equity Primer for Health Care Organizations
A newly released report, “Primer for private-equity investing for health care organizations,” from Concord Health Partners and the AHA Center for Health Innovation explores what leaders need to know about private equity as they explore innovation investing.
3 Takeaways from Physician Compensation Trends
The highly competitive post-pandemic labor market, particularly for specialists, is impacting the compensation packages health care providers are offering, experts say.
Why Community Colleges Can Be a Powerful Resource to Strengthen the Clinical Workforce Pipeline
As hospitals and health systems continue to renew and strengthen the clinical workforce pipeline, they may want to take a closer look at how community colleges can help in this area.
Virtual Multidisciplinary Rounds Cut Length of Stay, Costs
A new study published this month in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety finds that virtual MDRs combined with other interventions led to more than 60% of discharges being below the mean LOS at Yuma Regional Medical Center in Arizona and delivered other benefits.