Articles
AHA Leadership Summit
Chair File: Sharing Innovative Ideas and Strategies to Advance Health
Assessing the impact of artificial intelligence on health care delivery, managing workforce challenges, addressing environmental sustainability, improving the health care consumer experience: All these topics and more will be highlighted at the AHA Leadership Summit, July 16–18 in Seattle.
Leadership, Community Benefit, Leadership Dialogue
Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Providing Community Benefits and the Anchor Mission of Hospitals with Doug Brown of UMass Memorial Health
On today’s episode, I talk with AHA Board Member Doug Brown, president of UMass Memorial Community Hospitals and chief administrative officer for UMass Memorial Health, which serves patients throughout Massachusetts.
We discuss the many ways that hospitals, health systems and care providers support their communities beyond offering great medical care. While UMass Memorial has always been focused on programs to support their community, Doug shares how it reimagined its role as an anchor organization to lift up the community.
Population/Community Health, Community Health Improvement Week (CHIWeek)
Chair File: Hospitals Focus on Healthy Communities
June 12–18 is Community Health Improvement Week. This annual recognition week focuses on how people at hospitals, health systems, national organizations and community organizations are working together to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities and advance health equity.
Workplace Safety, Workplace Violence
Chair File: Building Safe Workplaces and Communities
On Friday, AHA led the seventh annual #HAVhope Friday, part of its Hospital Against Violence initiative, to focus national attention on ending all forms of violence in our workplaces and communities.
Access to Behavioral Health, Leadership Dialogue, Capacity Planning, Value Analysis
Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Addressing the Behavioral Health Crisis with Jesse Tamplen of John Muir Health
On this episode, I talk with Jesse Tamplen, vice president of behavioral health services at John Muir Health, located east of San Francisco, and a member of the AHA Committee on Behavioral Health.
Health Equity, Population/Community Health
Chair File: Connecting and Collaborating to Advance Health Equity and Improve Community Health
Advancing health equity must be of utmost importance for all of us working in hospitals and health systems.
National Hospital Week, Telling the Hospital Story, Nurses
Chair File: Highlighting the Extraordinary Work of Hospitals and Health Systems
This week as we celebrate National Hospital Week (https://www.aha.org/ahia/get-involved/national-hospital-week) and National Nurses Week (https://www.aonl.org/about/nurses-week), it’s a perfect time for telling the hospital story.
Access to Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Care Delivery
Chair File: Prioritizing Access to Quality Behavioral Health Care
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s an opportunity to note the progress we’ve made addressing behavioral health issues and delivering quality care, and to assess and take action to tackle the significant work that remains.
Health Equity, Leadership Dialogue
Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Accelerating Health Equity with Marcos Pesquera of CHRISTUS Health
On this episode, I talk with Marcos Pesquera, system vice president for community health and chief diversity officer at CHRISTUS Health, headquartered in Irving, Texas.
Governance Effectiveness, Workforce, Promoting Healthy Communities
Chair File: Resources to Support Good Governance, Strengthen the Workforce and Create Healthier Communities
Hospital and health system board members make decisions that affect their health care organization as well as their communities.