Articles
Behavioral Health Care Delivery, Population/Community Health, Community Partnerships, Collaboration & Partnerships, Behavioral Health Intervention & Issues Prevention, Digital Engagement
How Digital Tools Can Scale Behavioral Health Support Across Hospitals and Communities
This blog covers the ways hospitals and health systems can use digital tools to extend support and ensure personalized care and address rising behavioral health needs.
Behavioral Health Care Delivery, Population/Community Health, Community Partnerships, Collaboration & Partnerships, Behavioral Health Intervention & Issues Prevention
Leading with Care: How Hospitals Can Lead the Next Era of Behavioral Health
This blog explores how hospitals and health systems are shifting toward a population behavioral health model that encompasses prevention, self-care, community outreach, workforce support and clinical services.
Behavioral Health Care Delivery, Population/Community Health, Community Partnerships, Collaboration & Partnerships, Behavioral Health Intervention & Issues Prevention
Q&A with Owensboro Health and CredibleMind: Tackling Behavioral Health Through Community Collaboration
This blog explores how Owensboro Health and CredibleMind are partnering to address behavioral health needs in Kentucky and beyond.
Reducing Healthcare Disparities
AHA’s Health Equity Roadmap Comes to Life: Join Us in Cleveland
Attendees of the upcoming Accelerating Health Equity Conference, May 10-12 in Cleveland, will have an excellent opportunity to see the Health Equity Roadmap come to life as they join counterparts in other health care and community organizations for hands-on learning that can bolster efforts to advance diversity, equity and inclusion.
Reducing Healthcare Disparities
Accelerating Health Equity: Moving from Conversation to Action
Now is the time to evaluate how far we have come in closing gaps in health disparities, assess where health care is on the equity journey and take what we’ve learned to strengthen our organizations and communities through collaborative and innovative work — by investing in our neighborhoods and one another.
Population/Community Health, AHA Center for Health Innovation, AHA Community Health Improvement (ACHI), Community Health Improvement Week (CHIWeek)
Rising Together to Create and Sustain Healthy, Vibrant Communities for All
As the global pandemic recedes, hospitals, health systems and community-based organizations must continue to align strategies and tactics and accelerate the shared work on ensuring health equity and creating communities that contribute to vitality for all.
Population/Community Health, Promoting Healthy Communities, Community Partnerships, Reducing Healthcare Disparities
To Advance Health Equity, You Must Invest in Communities
Place-based investment, otherwise known as community investment, helps create the social and physical environments that support community health over the long term. As communities recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, community investment will be an innovative yet useful strategy for reimagining and rebuilding a more equitable society at a scale that grants alone cannot achieve.
AHA Center for Health Innovation, Social Determinants of Health, Population/Community Health, Reducing Healthcare Disparities
Accelerating the Path to Equity with Population Health Tools
The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated health inequities we face as a nation. But we’re also seeing innovation in all aspects of care delivery and community collaboration and partnerships to address these challenges. We know that the homes where people live and their support networks of family and friends influence people’s ability to stay healthy or recover quickly. Access to safe, affordable and stable housing is key to good health. Strong social connections are linked to longer life and better mental health, whereas a lack of such social ties is associated with depression and increased mortality.
AHA Center for Health Innovation, Promoting Healthy Communities
Local health systems promote healthy behaviors
Smoking, diabetes and hospital readmission rates fall and exercising and healthy eating increases in communities where hospitals and health systems use effective strategies to encourage healthy behavior changes, writes Nancy Myers, vice president of leadership and system innovation at the AHA Center for Health Innovation.
Population/Community Health, AHA
Population health connects care with community
In this AHA Stat Blog, Nancy Myers, AHA vice president of leadership and system innovation, highlights resources and tools to assist hospitals and health systems with their population health efforts.