Chairperson's File
Blog posts from 2025 AHA Board Chair Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health, and past chairs.
Hospitals are helping students with disabilities transition from school to the workplace. Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, a 74-bed hospital in Palmer, Alaska is one of many U.S. hospitals and organizations providing training to young adults with disabilities through Project SEARCH, a national鈥
Focusing on community needs using a data-driven approach and local resources has improved care for expectant mothers and babies in western Michigan. More than 10 years ago, the black infant mortality rate in Kent County was 22.4 deaths per 1,000 live births, one of the highest rates in the state.鈥
Here's an excellent opportunity for health care executives to study and discuss pressing health care issues with a cohort of other health care leaders and experts in the field. The AHA's Health Care Transformation Fellowship focuses on health care transformation topics, including clinician鈥
Homelessness is a hidden but real issue in Chittenden County, VT. University of Vermont Medical Center, based in Burlington, is collaborating with several community organizations to provide housing and improve health care to homeless individuals and families. A recent community health needs鈥
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Read the AHA/HPOE guide for hospitals 鈥淧reventing Patient Falls: A Systematic Approach from the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Project.'
A health care collaboration in rural Missouri is expanding patient access to primary and behavioral health care services. In Lexington, Mo., as in many rural communities, there are not enough local resources to meet demand for primary care, dental care and psychiatric services. Lafayette Regional鈥
At hospitals and health care systems across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are leading initiatives to achieve the Triple Aim: improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction), improving the health of populations and reducing the per capita cost of health鈥
Since September 2015, the AHA/HRET HEN 2.0 hospitals have been working to reduce hospital-acquired conditions by 40 percent and readmissions by 20 percent as part of the Partnership for Patients campaign. For the Health Forum/AHA Leadership Summit this past July, quality and patient safety managers鈥
Every aspect of a patient's experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused resources: the health care physical environment and the people who manage it. A Sept. 21 Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence webinar 鈥淚mproving the Patient Experience Through the Health Care Physical鈥
鈥淓very staff member counts鈥 and 鈥渆very patient counts.鈥 With this mantra, AllianceHealth Pryor in Pryor Creek, Okla., has reduced readmissions and improved responsiveness to patient needs. Goals for the hospital's readmissions reduction project included improving鈥