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Supporting Population Health Through a Food Pantry
Boston Medical Center uses a food pantry and healthy eating demonstration project to treat nutrition insecurity in its community.
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Extra Mile
The Extra Mile profiles hospital staff members who go above and beyond their daily tasks to improve patient care, community health or hospital operations.
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Speech Pathologist Helps Boston Children’s Turn Care for Lou Gehrig’s Patients Up a Notch
John Costello's work with pediatric patients and communication at Boston Children's Hospital has led to advances with ALS patients
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Anesthesiologist teaches alternative pain management techniques around the world
Teaching alternative pain management techniques around the world is one of his passions.
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Video: How to Have Those Crucial Conversations with Patients About Value and Shared Decision-making
Rob Schreiner, M.D., managing director at Huron Consulting Group in Chicago, says physicians need to learn how to have value-based and shared decision-making conversations with patients.
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Clinical Integration is Changing Pediatric Care
Phoenix Children's Hospital shares lessons from creating a first-of-its-kind pediatric clinically integrated organization.
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Video: Rick Pollack Takes A Broad View of Advocacy
Rick Pollack, who takes the reins of the American Hospital Association in September, says advocacy is more than what happens in Washington, D.C. Here, he discusses the AHA's strengths, and challenges the field is facing.
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Baptist Memorial Hospital Strives to Carefully Coordinate Care for Elderly with Fractures
Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis recently instituted a “fragility fractures” program in its emergency department, aiming to improve care for elderly patients with fractures.
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Throwback Thursday: In 1937, a Meeting of Hospital Leaders, with a Surprise Visitor
Highlights of the AHA Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., include the latest medical equipment, 21 state governors and ‘the First Lady of our Land.'
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How U.S. Health Care Came to Cost Insanely More
A historical chart of health care spending exposes the culprit in rising costs: code-based, fee-for-service medicine.
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Throwback Thursday: Revisiting a Hospital for Emergencies at Chicago's Union Station
A small hospital that was set up to aid passengers at Chicago's train station was at its busiest during World War II.
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Transforming Care Coordination
A checklist for health care executives can help their organizations to coordinate patient care more effectively.
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SGR Repeal Is Another Step for Value-based Payment
Senate overwhelming approves Medicare pay fix for physicians; bill advances efforts to transform health care.
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CMS Uses Aggressive Goal-setting to Drive Improvement
Officials for CMS' Partnership for Patients describe how to create systems of change using quantifiable targets.
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Telehealth, Greening the OR and Resilient Design
In this video, H&HN staff preview articles on advances in telehealth, the greening of the OR and efforts to implement antimicrobial stewardship programs.
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Collaborating with Communities to Redefine the Hospital
A toolkit provides lessons from more than 1,000 hospital leaders on transformation.
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AHA Voices
A Deeper Look at Governance of Physician Organizations
The AHA's Center for Healthcare Governance and Physician Leadership Forum undertook a study to examine governance structure and function in a diverse set of physician organizations.
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As Health Care Changes, a New Toolkit Can Help
In Redefining the H, health care leaders can access insight and advice about how to better integrate with their communities.
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Cloud-based Learning in Health Care
The speed at which medical knowledge evolves is overwhelming. The cloud can help physicians to communicate important advances.
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The Differences Between First and Second Curve Hospitals
The end of health care's First Curve is in sight. Hospital leaders maneuvering the Second Curve see the world differently. They operate holistic, technologically advanced clinical models.
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Video: Its All About the Triple Aim
Advocate Health Care CEO Jim Skogsbergh, the AHA's 2015 chair-elect, says organizations will find different solutions to today's challenges, but they all share a common goal.
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