/ en Sat, 26 Apr 2025 20:26:23 -0500 Wed, 10 Mar 21 14:52:12 -0600 /news/headline/2021-03-10-aha-releases-supporting-care-teams-resource-boosting-staff-morale-post <p><span><span><span><span>The AHA today released </span><span><a href="/system/files/media/file/2021/03/lln-playbook-companion-0321.pdf">AHA Hospitals in Action: Supporting Care Teams</a></span><span>, compiling hospitals’ and health systems’ stories on ways they are supporting health care workers’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the use of “lavender carts,” time-out rooms and easily accessible mental health programs. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span>The new resource is a companion to the recently updated </span><span><a href="/system/files/media/file/2021/02/alliance-playbook-2021_final.pdf">Well-being Playbook 2.0</a></span><span>, and is the result of a collaboration between the AHA Living Learning Network, AHA Behavioral Health Community and the AHA Physician Alliance.</span></span></span></span></p> Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:52:12 -0600 Staff Communication /news/headline/2019-11-14-hospital-groups-urge-nlrb-modify-its-standards-offensive-speech <p>The National Labor Relations Board should conclude that employee conduct that occurs in a health care setting and violates a lawful employer rule is presumptively unprotected by the National Labor Relations Act, the AHA joined by the Federation of ����������s said in a Nov 12 friend-of-the-court <a href="/system/files/media/file/2019/11/amicus-brief-aha-federation-national-labor-relations-board-standards-governing-offensive-employee-conduct-11-12-19.pdf">brief</a>. Adopting this modified standard would be consistent with longstanding congressional and Supreme Court recognition of the unique circumstances that arise in health care settings, and “the importance of safeguarding the tranquility of the health care environment,” the hospital groups said. They also agreed that the board should harmonize the Act’s protections with relevant anti-discrimination and anti-harassment laws, and should not have a separate standard for employee conduct on picket lines. They filed the brief in response to the board’s Sept. 25 invitation to file amicus briefs in <a href="https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/nlrb-extends-time-submitting-briefs-regarding-nlra-protection-profane-or">General Motors LLC</a>, which concerned protections under the Act for profane or offensive statements. </p> Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:20:29 -0600 Staff Communication /news/headline/2019-09-12-health-care-strategists-meet-nashville <p><em>Pictured: Shabnam Mogharabi, CEO and executive producer at SoulPancake, an award-winning media company, opened the meeting with insight into cutting through the negative online and social media messages to connect with people by celebrating personal and profession purpose.</em></p> <p>More than 2,000 health care strategists — including marketing, strategic planning, business development and communications/public relations professionals — attended the annual meeting of the <a href="https://www.shsmd.org">AHA’s Society for Health Care Strategy and Market Development</a> this week in Nashville. Opening speaker Shabnam Mogharabi, CEO and executive producer for media company SoulPancake, offered insight on connecting with people through social and online messaging that celebrates personal and professional purpose. Other keynote speakers included Jon Meacham, presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author; Sekou Andrews, creator of Poetic Voice; Zeev Neuwirth, M.D., senior medical director of population health for Atrium Health; and Carla Moore, vice president of sales strategy and education at HBO. SHSMD also honored Cristal Herrera Woodley, director of marketing, communications and customer engagement at Renown Health, with its 2019 Rising Star Award; and recognized the many contributions of former SHSMD board member Terri McNorton, who passed away earlier this year. During her career, McNorton was vice president for General Health System Baton Rouge, La.; Ochsner Health System New Orleans; and Bon Secours Health System based in Marriottsville, Md.</p> Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:35:12 -0500 Staff Communication