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The hospital field's perception of what constitutes a hospital has to change, says David Bailey, M.D., Nemours' president and CEO, in a video interview.

Our health care systems differ. Our societies differ. Our religions differ. But we are members of a very special community, a community of caring. And we need to stand with our health care brothers and sisters.

Community paramedicine uses local emergency medicine technicians and paramedics to provide services outside of their traditional emergency response and transport roles. 

For all the lip service paid to population health management, few organizations in the United States are really committed to it. Not, anyway, in the original sense of the term.

Although population health management has garnered significant attention, there has been little effort in tracking the actual progress that’s been made toward value-based models of care.

In health care, we are near the end of the first act of whatever you want to call this vast change we are going through. 

Julie Morita, M.D., commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, discusses partnerships the city has formed with local hospital systems in this H&HN video interview.

Earlier this year, the AHA released the “Leadership Toolkit for Redefining the H: Engaging Trustees and Communities,” a culmination of months of work by two AHA committees — the Committee on Research and the Committee on Performance Improvement. This comprehensive resource outlines important themes identified through community conversations across the country.