Advancing Health

While workforce challenges are significant, there are many opportunities available to hospitals and health systems to improve care, motivate and re-skill staff, and modernize processes and business models that reflect the shift toward providing the right care, at the right time, in the right setting. To develop actionable solutions, the AHA launched the Changing Workforce Task Force in the fall of...

In this episode, Marie Cleary-Fishman, vice president of clinical quality at AHA is joined by Diane Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care and faculty at Mt. Sinai Health Systems in NYC and MacArthur genius awardee to discuss COVID-19’s impact on caring for seriously ill patients.

We will hear the story of hospital heroes caring for COVID-19 patients at Marshall Medical Center located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Northern California. Marshall is a full service, 125-bed not-for-profit hospital with a Level 3 trauma center serving El Dorado and its neighboring counties.

Recently, AHA published a compendium of case examples demonstrating the struggles and successes of rural hospitals battling COVID-19 in their communities. For this podcast, we honor our hospital heroes and focus on surviving the surge from the perspective of Alvin Hoover, CEO, King’s Daughters Medical Center, Brookhaven, Mississippi.

In this podcast, Jay Bhatt, former senior vice president and chief medical officer of the AHA, Victor Dzau, president of the National Academy of Medicine, and Ruth Katz, vice president and the executive director of the Health, Medicine, and Society Program at the Aspen Institute discuss how they have brought together stakeholders and leaders to address the U.S. opioid epidemic in an innovative and...

In part two of this two-part podcast, two senior officials at the forefront of the ongoing duel with cybercriminals. DHS Under Secretary and Chief Intelligence Officer, David Glawe; and DHS Assistant Director for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security, Bryan Ware, continue their conversation with John Riggi, a career FBI veteran who now serves as senior advisor for cybersecurity and risk for th...

Recently, AHA published a compendium of case examples demonstrating the struggles and successes of rural hospitals battling COVID-19 in their communities. For this podcast, we honor our hospital heroes and focus on surviving the surge from the perspective of Tim Putnam, CEO, Margaret Mary Healthcare, Batesville, Indiana.

This podcast will explore how Tidelands Health has employed peer support specialists - people who have been successful in the recovery process who help others experiencing similar situations-- patient navigators. Tidelands staff will provide highlights of peer support training, as well as how they have been accepted by staff, clinicians and patients. Moreover, they will share how peer support has...

- All communities deserve equal access to mental health services but often the only alternative is the local emergency department. This podcast will share how Tidelands Health Took an existing space down, adjacent to emergency department in one of their hospitals, and created 6 private rooms for behavioral health patients. This new environment improves safety for patients and staff, and provides a...

In this podcast, we will learn how, though collaboration at the state and local level, Tidelands Health provides improved access to behavioral health services without onsite inpatient beds or clinicians. Monica Grey will describe their community health resource team’s work focused on the state’s healthy outcome program, “HOP” strengthening the connections between Tidelands, local mental health age...

In part one of this two-part podcast, you’ll from two senior officials at the forefront of the ongoing duel with cybercriminals. DHS Under Secretary and Chief Intelligence Officer, David Glawe; and DHS Assistant Director for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security, Bryan Ware, are speaking with John Riggi, a career FBI veteran who now serves as senior advisor for cybersecurity and risk for the A...

In this podcast, Darren Henson, AHA’s director at the Institute for Diversity & Health Equity, explores how despite the COVID-19 outbreak, Loyola University Medical Center – serving the Chicago area – remains committed to its partnership with a community-driven, multi-sector coalition. Professor Lena Hatchett, PhD, from Loyola’s Stritch School of Medicine, shares how the relationship between the m...

COVID-19 is reshaping health care through technology. Recent advances, such as artificial intelligence, telehealth, virtual collaboration and data tracking are stepping up to help address the virus and flatten the curve. In this podcast, Andy Shin, chief operating officer and senior vice president at the AHA Center for Health Innovation and Kaveh Safavi, head of global health at Accenture discuss...

COVID-19 cases around the country are increasing daily. While hospitals and health care workers are trying their best to treat those positive cases, they are also exploring telehealth and virtual care to prevent overcrowding hospitals and containing the spread of coronavirus.

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has presented hospitals and health systems with the greatest public health challenge in recent history. In this Advancing Health podcast, Andy Shin, COO of the AHA’s Center for Health Innovation discusses what digital response strategies have been successful, and what lessons have been learned, with Bruce Brandes, general manager digital and partner Network, AVIA and V...

On this podcast, John Riggi, Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk at the American Hospital Association and FBI Cyber Division Senior Executive Herb Stapleton discuss significant corona-related cyber threats. Stapleton also discusses what the FBI is doing to counter those threats and assist hospitals.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many hospitals and health systems are expanding telehealth services. In part two, Jay Bhatt, D.O., senior vice president and chief medical officer of the AHA, continues the discussion on the value of telehealth to address behavioral health issues with Shantanu Agrawal, M.D., president and CEO of the National Quality Forum, and Arpan Waghray, M.D., executive me...

As March ushers in Women's History Month, our new Advancing Health podcast "Black History & Women's History Months: A Conversation with our Board Chair" features an interview with Kimberlydawn Wisdom, M.D., a remarkable leader who was recently recognized on Modern Healthcare Magazine's list of Top 25 Minority Leaders. Listen as she shares insights and stories about the influential people throughou...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many hospitals and health systems are expanding telehealth services. In addition, addressing mental health needs during this crisis is becoming increasingly important. In part one of this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Jay Bhatt, D.O., senior vice president and chief medical officer of the AHA, discusses the value of telehealth to address behavioral health issu...

In this podcast, Priya Bathija, vice president of The Value Initiative at the AHA, and Dr. Bob Pendleton, Chief Medical Quality Officer of University of Utah Healthcare discuss the importance of value in today’s times, in addition to ways providers can remove barriers and build a sustainable culture of value.

In this episode Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of AHA’s Physician Alliance speaks with Dr. William Maples, president and CEO at the Institute for Healthcare Excellence and Dr. Bridget Duffy, chief medical officer of Vocera Communications.

In this episode Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of AHA’s Physician Alliance speaks with Dr. William Maples, president and CEO at the Institute for Healthcare Excellence and Dr. Ronald Paulus, president and CEO of RAPMD Strategic Advisor’s and executive in residence at General Catalyst. Dr. Paulus is the immediate past president and CEO of Mission Health.

In this episode Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of AHA’s Physician Alliance speaks with Dr. Read Pierce, vice president of culture transformation and strategy at the Institute for Healthcare Excellence and practicing internist at the University of Colorado and Dr. Bryan Sexton, director of the Duke Center for Healthcare Safety and Quality and associate professor, continuing the conversation on...

In part two of this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Jay Bhatt, D.O., AHA senior vice president and chief medical officer, and Maurice Jones, president and CEO of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, continue their discussion on social determinants of health and how collaborations between hospitals and community development organizations advance health equity

On this Advancing Health podcast, John Supplitt, AHA senior director, speaks to two rural hospital leaders about the importance of implementing an effective community health worker program to expand health care access.