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Case Studies

UnidosUS Alliance Case Study: Lurie Children’s Hospital Community Collaborative Advances Health Equity

With the goal of addressing issues impacting child health comprehensively and collaboratively, NWSHC and Lurie Children’s Hospital partnered to develop and implement community-driven related to child health and well-being.
AHA/HRET Guides
Public

Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health

The guide reports the findings of HRET's review of 300 community health needs assessments, provides strategic considerations for hospital engagement in community health improvement and offers a model of the hospital's role in building a culture of health.
Guides/Reports
Member

Societal Factors That Influence Health

AHA presents a framework to support hospitals and health systems and actions they can take at each level (structural, community, personal) to improve health equity. Numerous studies have demonstrated a link between the social drivers of health and key health outcomes. AHA has worked to promote widespread use of ICD-10-CM codes that enable provider to collect data on the social drivers of health
Guides/Reports

HCC Report 2024: Healthier Together

This report covers the Hospital Community Collaborative’s impact on community health between 2018-2023, detailing the program’s history and elements.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan
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The FDA Clears Apple Watch-Powered Platform for Seizure Monitoring

EpiWatch — a Johns Hopkins Medicine spinout — has received FDA 510(k) premarket clearance for its seizure detection platform that runs on the Apple Watch.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

4 Things That Health Consumers Want Now

The recently released third installment of the 2024 National Consumer Survey Series from Jarrard Inc., a Chartis Company, explores what leads patients to choose providers, how patients want to access care and what they want in their relationship with providers.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

5 Things Gen Z Health Care Workers Want

As the health care workforce continues to age, the challenge of effectively recruiting younger staff has taken shape not only in this field but in others as well.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

3 Ways to Expand Community, Patient Engagement

Advisory councils or boards can play an integral role in engaging the voice of the patient to help shape changes from providers and health plans. But some organizations are going a step further.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Data-Driven Initiative Drives Down Disparities in Rural Health Care

Identifying the underlying factors that contribute to disparities in outcomes in vulnerable rural populations and developing strategies to address these issues remain constant challenges, but progress is being made. OSF Healthcare’s Health Equities Action Lab (HEAL) is employing a data-driven strategy to address breast cancer disparity outcomes among its Illinois patients, 65% of whom live in rural areas.