/ en Mon, 28 Apr 2025 22:02:45 -0500 Fri, 25 Apr 25 08:19:26 -0500 /news/perspective/2025-04-25-hospitals-are-cornerstones-communities-we-must-tell-our-stories-protect-access-care <p>One year ago, a nurse at Children’s Hospital Colorado went above and beyond in a way that a very young patient and her family will never forget. </p><p>Kayla McCarthy specializes in working with young children awaiting or recovering from organ transplants. In May 2024, she was approved as a living organ donor and <a href="https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/colorado-news/nurse-donates-liver-to-patient-childrens-hospital-colorado/73-2549bc86-61a8-4ca4-ba3b-aea5f60579d3" target="_blank" title="Article: Nurse helps to save a child's life">contributed a piece of her liver to a young toddler in her hospital, helping to save the child’s life</a>. </p><p>McCarthy’s remarkable gift symbolizes with a single gesture what hospitals and their phenomenal care teams mean to the people and communities they serve. It is more than just the doors that are always open to all, any time of day or night. It is even more than the dependable, quality, compassionate care delivered to patients every minute of every day in every corner of the nation. </p><p>The bond between hospitals and their communities reaches deeper. Hospitals and health systems offer programs that provide healthy food, preventive wellness education and maternal support services to ensure healthy births. Hospitals and health systems provide critical behavioral and mental health services. Hospitals and health systems are major employers, supporting families and businesses while providing a financial foundation that helps communities to thrive. And hospitals and health systems partner with community organizations to address the unique needs of the patients and neighborhoods they serve. </p><p>For example: </p><ul><li><a href="/role-hospitals-shodair-childrens-hospital-launches-hope-campaign" target="_blank" title="The Hope Campaign Story">Shodair Children’s Hospital in Helena, Mont., has launched the Hope Campaign</a> to reduce stigma and encourage conversations about youth mental health.</li><li><a href="/role-hospitals-virtual-singing-walking-groups-dartmouth-healths-programs-older-adults-enhance-health" target="_blank" title="Dartmouth Health free educational classes">Dartmouth Health in Lebanon, N.H., offers free educational classes, support and services to improve the minds, bodies and spirits of older adults and their families</a>. Older adults can take a class or series of classes to improve their balance, get help using their iPhone, learn strategies for coping with symptoms of chronic disease and get tips for eating healthy. </li><li><a href="https://www.tenethealth.com/our-stories/our-stories-detail/our-stories/2025/03/18/the-hospitals-of-providence-unveils-new-perinatal-center" target="_blank" title="Tenet Health's caring for mothers story">Tenet Health’s The Hospitals of Providence in El Paso, Texas, recently unveiled a new center dedicated to caring for mothers experiencing a high-risk pregnancy</a>. </li></ul><p>Every hospital and health system has many stories of how they are healing patients and advancing health for communities. Hundreds of these examples can be found on <a href="/tellingthehospitalstory" target="_blank" title="Telling the Hospital Story web page">AHA’s Telling the Hospital Story</a> webpages. </p><p>These stories are powerful. They inform and inspire. It’s important that we share these stories with our communities and with our legislators, especially as Congress continues to consider funding cuts and policy changes that would jeopardize access to care for millions of Americans across the nation. </p><p>Next week, Congress returns to Washington, D.C., and congressional committees will begin marking up portions of the budget reconciliation bill to enact key pieces of President Trump’s agenda. On May 7, we expect the House Energy and Commerce Committee to begin marking up its portion of the bill and the potential for significant cuts to the Medicaid program remain on the table.  </p><p>That week, we’ll have more than 1,000 hospital and health system leaders in Washington for <a href="https://annualmeeting.aha.org/registration" target="_blank" title="AHA's Annual Membership Meeting web site">AHA’s Annual Membership Meeting</a> May 4-6. You can still register to attend if you have not done so yet. </p><p>Whether you are at the Annual Meeting or not, you can tell your story to your legislators and explain how certain policies would jeopardize access to the 24/7 care and services that hospitals and health systems provide. </p><p>We need to talk about protecting access to care by rejecting cuts to Medicaid, additional so-called site-neutral payment policies and harmful changes to the 340B program. At the same time, we need to extend the enhanced premium tax credits that help millions of Americans access affordable private insurance; strengthen and support the health care workforce; and provide relief from burdensome regulations and policies that inhibit care.</p><p>Please see our recent <a href="/action-alert/2025-04-14-take-action-urge-lawmakers-reject-medicaid-cuts-protect-access-care" target="_blank" title="AHA Action Alert with details and resources to support advocacy efforts.">Action Alert</a> for more details and resources to support your advocacy efforts. </p><p>At the end of the day, the policies we are fighting for will protect access to care and services for patients, as well as help caregivers like Kayla McCarthy continue to do what they do best: heal, comfort and make lives better. <br> </p> Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:19:26 -0500 Community Stories /community-health-environment/stories <div class="raw-html-embed"> </div><div> /* Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar */ .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar { position: relative; 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The effort will facilitate private sector partnerships to address these shortages in the fight against COVID-19. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span>Earlier the month, Providence, a 51-hospital system in seven western states, began the initiative in Washington state and secured significant support from individuals, community organizations and local manufacturers. Providence will continue its local effort while the AHA brings the initiative to scale and facilitates new relationships between providers in need of masks and manufacturers with the capacity to produce them. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span>“Our health care heroes on the front lines have an immediate need for personal protective equipment and we have to push on all cylinders to get these items produced and into the field,” said AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack. “This challenge builds on the incredible efforts of Providence to bring this call to action to the entire nation.” </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span>For more information on how to support the 100 Million Mask Challenge, visit </span></span><span><span><span><span><a href="/100millionmasks">aha.org/100millionmasks</a>.</span></span></span></span></p> Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:27:19 -0500 Community Stories /bright-spots .dynamic-page--node .dynamic-container { padding-right: 30px; padding-left: 30px } .bright_lead { margin: 30px auto } .bright_lead p { color: #63666A; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 21px; } p, ul { font-size: 16px; color: #555 } p, ul { font-size: 16px; color: #555 } h2, h4 { color: #253b80; } h3 { font-weight: normal; } h2 { margin: 0 } h3 { margin-top: 0 } h3, h5 { color: #4579bc } h2 a { color: #003087 } a:hover { text-decoration: none } .container .jumbotron.styled { margin-bottom: 20px; } /* Site overrides - End*/ .field_lead img { float: left; margin-right: 15px; padding-top: 2px; } .vcenter { display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; float: none; } #ci_footer-social { font-size: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; width: 100%; text-align: right; } @media (max-width:991px) { .ci_logo { margin-top: 25px } .ci_social p { text-align: center !important; } #ci_footer-social { text-align: center } } @media only screen and (max-width:768px) { .field_lead .col-xs-12 { width: 50% } .bright_lead img { margin-bottom: 20px; } } .rowEqual { display: -webkit-box; display: -webkit-flex; display: -ms-flexbox; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; padding: 0; clear: both } .rowEqual>[class*='col-'] { display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: 30px } h4 small { color: #9D2235 } .sidebarPartner img { max-height: 200px } .sidebarPartner { width: 75%; text-align: center; margin: 0 auto 20px; } .sidebarPromo { text-align: center } .sidebarPromo h3 { text-align: center; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px } .sidebarPromo h5 { margin-top: 5px; text-transform: none; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.3em; } .sidebarPromo .panel-body { padding-top: 0 } .sidebarPromo .panel-heading { padding-top: 20px } <div class="row rowEqual"><div class="bright_lead"><div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"><img src="/sites/default/files/2019-10/100-million-logo-text.jpg" alt="100 million healthier lives logo" width="1500" height="304"></div><div class="col-md-8 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"><p>In partnership with 100 Million Healthier Lives, the ���������� Association developed case studies highlighting community health and population health.</p></div></div></div><div class="row rowEqual"><div class="col-md-4"><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Housing-is-Health-Care"><img src="/sites/default/files/2019-10/housing.jpg" alt="UVM Medical Center housing" width="700" height="532"></a><h4><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Housing-is-Health-Care"><small>Housing</small></a></h4><h2><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Housing-is-Health-Care">UVM Medical Center</a></h2><h3>Housing is Health Care</h3><p>University of Vermont Medical Center shares their journey of developing three different housing initiatives to combat homelessness in Chittenden County, Vermont.</p></div><div class="col-md-4"><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/From-the-Ground-Up-Improving-Community-Health-Through-Collaboration"><img src="/sites/default/files/2019-10/st-mary-collaboration-garden.jpg" alt="St. Marys Health Collaborative Garden" width="700" height="532"></a><h4><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/From-the-Ground-Up-Improving-Community-Health-Through-Collaboration"><small>Nutrition</small></a></h4><h2><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/From-the-Ground-Up-Improving-Community-Health-Through-Collaboration">St. Mary's Health Center</a></h2><h3>From the Ground Up: Improving Community Health Through Collaboration</h3><p>St. Mary’s Health Center in Lewiston, Maine shares how it invested in the community to develop community gardens in diverse and economically challenged neighborhoods. These community gardens have reduced the impact of food insecurity by increasing access to fresh foods and engaging community members in activities to promote better health. </p></div><div class="col-md-4"><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Know-Your-Numbers-Teaming-up-to-Help-the-Greater-Bridgeport-Community"><img src="/sites/default/files/2019-10/bridgeport.jpg" alt="bridgeport hospital nurse taking blood for health screening" width="700" height="532"></a><h4><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Know-Your-Numbers-Teaming-up-to-Help-the-Greater-Bridgeport-Community"><small>Services for children and indigent population</small></a></h4><h2><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Know-Your-Numbers-Teaming-up-to-Help-the-Greater-Bridgeport-Community">Yale New Haven Health</a></h2><h3>Know Your Numbers: Teaming up to Help the Greater Bridgeport Community</h3><p>Yale New Haven Health’s Bridgeport Hospital, in partnership with St. Vincent’s Medical Center shares valuable programs to better address the needs of patients and communities. Through health screenings, a charitable pharmacy, food pantries and community health workers, the collaborative has increased access to care, education and counseling services to the Bridgeport community.</p></div><div class="col-md-4"><a href="https://insight.livestories.com/s/v2/new-story/955448eb-8542-4cf9-843a-105f71650246/"><img src="/sites/default/files/2019-12/seton-healthcare-asthma-map[.jpg" alt="seton healthcare asthma map" width="700" height="532"></a><h4><a href="https://insight.livestories.com/s/v2/new-story/955448eb-8542-4cf9-843a-105f71650246/"><small>Community partnerships</small></a></h4><h2><a href="https://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Improving-Health-through-Community-Partnerships">Seton Healthcare Family</a></h2><h3>Program</h3><p>Seton Healthcare Family shares the impact of two collaboratives, Community Care Collaborative and Children’s Optimal Health. One serves the needs of the indigent population in Travis County, Texas, while the other is focuses on enhancing health care and social services for children. Read about how Seton has expanded and sustained these initiatives over the years.</p></div><div class="col-md-4"><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Promoting-Holistic-Wellness-among-Community-Residents"><img src="/sites/default/files/2019-10/st-anthony-community-outreach.jpg" alt="St. Anthony Chicago medical worker with community member" width="700" height="532"></a><h4><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Promoting-Holistic-Wellness-among-Community-Residents"><small>Emotional and psychosocial supportive services</small></a></h4><h2><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Promoting-Holistic-Wellness-among-Community-Residents">Saint Anthony Hospital</a></h2><h3>Promoting Holistic Wellness among Community Residents</h3><p>The Community Wellness Program at Saint Anthony Hospital provides residents of Chicago’s west and southwest side with a wide range of opportunities through its community resource centers, including free mental health and social services. The program has not only improved mental health in the community, but also helped develop trusting relationships between patients and providers.</p></div><div class="col-md-4"><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Prescribe-Safe-Combating-Opioid-Abuse"><img src="/sites/default/files/2019-10/prescribe-safe.jpg" alt="prescribe safe worker looking through prescription drugs" width="700" height="532"></a><h4><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Prescribe-Safe-Combating-Opioid-Abuse"><small>Prescription Drug Use</small></a></h4><h2><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Prescribe-Safe-Combating-Opioid-Abuse">Montage Health</a></h2><h3>Prescribe Safe: Combating Opioid Abuse</h3><p>Read about Prescribe Safe, an initiative of Montage Health of Monterey County, California and 20 other organizations that aims to reduce prescription drug abuse and misuse, including overdoses. Since its launch, the initiative has helped reduce opioid-related deaths in Monterey County.</p></div><div class="col-md-4"><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Healthy-Nevada-Project"><img src="/sites/default/files/2019-10/healthy_nevada.jpg" alt="lab workers screening dna" width="700" height="532"></a><h4><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Healthy-Nevada-Project"><small>Genetic Testing</small></a></h4><h2><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Healthy-Nevada-Project">Renown Health</a></h2><h3>Healthy Nevada Project: Ultimate Strategic Plan</h3><p>Through genetic testing, The Healthy Nevada Project – a collaboration of Reno, Nevada-based Renown Health and Desert Research Institute – is exploring the health risks of both individuals and communities. Learn how The Project encouraged record public participation, tested more than 32,000 Nevadans, and is looking to expand to communities across the U.S.</p></div><div class="col-md-4"><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Investing-in-Youth"><img src="/sites/default/files/2019-10/science-fair.jpg" alt="student giving a science fair presentation at massachusettes general" width="700" height="532"></a><h4><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Investing-in-Youth"><small>Youth Education and Empowerment</small></a></h4><h2><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Investing-in-Youth">Massachusettes General Hospital</a></h2><h3>Investing in Youth</h3><p>Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) shares its comprehensive approach to addressing educational attainment as a contributing factor to overall health and socio-economic status. Learn how MGH empowers children, youth and young adults to explore new opportunities and adapt healthier lifestyles.</p></div><div class="col-md-4"><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Growing-Together-Reimagining-Health-Care-with-CHWs"><img src="/sites/default/files/2019-10/north-texas.jpg" alt="North Texas food bank van and workers" width="700" height="532"></a><h4><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Growing-Together-Reimagining-Health-Care-with-CHWs"><small>CHW</small></a></h4><h2><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Growing-Together-Reimagining-Health-Care-with-CHWs">Baylor Scott & White Health</a></h2><h3>Growing Together: Reimagining Health Care with CHWs</h3><p>Community Health Workers at Baylor Scott & White Health are integrated within various points of care, including care navigation, chronic disease education, home health care. With over 100 CHWs, the hospital has seen reductions in emergency department visits and inpatient admissions, and increase in annual wellness and primary care visits.</p></div><div class="col-md-4"><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Social-Worker-in-the-Library-Chicago"><img src="/sites/default/files/2019-12/cpl-social-worker.jpg" alt="social worker at the Chicago Public Library" width="700" height="532"></a><h4><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Social-Worker-in-the-Library-Chicago"><small>Social Work</small></a></h4><h2><a href="http://www.communitycommons.org/collections/Social-Worker-in-the-Library-Chicago">Amita Health</a></h2><h3>Social Worker in the Library Chicago</h3><p>Amita Health's Social Worker in the Library Chicago project, which embeds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at two library branches to improve the quality of life for individuals who are experiencing homelessness, mental illness and other complex needs in the Uptown community of Chicago. In the first seven months, the social worker interacted with close to 440 patrons, in which more than 250 were referred to programs and services on social determinants of health.</p></div></div> Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:24:01 -0500 Community Stories /magazinenewspaperwebsite/2019-03-21-improve-access-affordability-and-collaboration-advance-health <p>March 2019 -- Brian Gragnolati, chair of the AHA Board of Trustees and President and CEO of Atlantic Health System, discusses in Modern Healthcare the important of improving health care access and affordability and focusing on collaboration in order to advance health for all. Read the full <a href="https://www.modernhealthcare.com/opinion-editorial/commentary-improve-access-affordability-and-collaboration-advance-health?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=TVI&hootPostID=a1d67cdd83ae718fa069431c5d57c07a">op-ed in Modern.</a></p> Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:29:50 -0500 Community Stories /magazinenewspaperwebsite/2019-02-12-ramiahs-story-how-patient-care-and-medical-innovation-helped <p>February 2019 -- When Ramiah was born without a trachea, her care team at Penn State Health used a 3-D printer to build a replacement. This case marks the first time that 3-D printing technology was used to “build” such a device and successfully implant it in a patient with tracheal agenesis. <a href="http://ow.ly/RX8J30nxZNO">Read more</a>.</p> Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:37:19 -0600 Community Stories /magazinenewspaperwebsite/2019-01-11-texas-hospitals-adapt-existing-technology-tackle-opioid-crisis <p>January 2019 -- Adapting existing technology, the Texas Hospital Association is helping health care providers in Texas fight the state's opioid epidemic with software that providers relevant patient information in real-time. <a href="http://ow.ly/iCeq30nfIoL ">Learn more</a>.</p> Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:44:19 -0600 Community Stories /magazinenewspaperwebsite/2018-10-23-wielding-food-medicine <p><span><span><span>October 2018<span> -- </span>Hospitals are focusing on nutrition to care for all needs of their patients, sending them home with prescriptions as well as bags of healthy food. Hospitals are opening farmers markets and grocery stores in their communities to address the social determinants of health and ensure their patients have access to healthy, affordable food options. Learn more in this <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/take-two-aspirinand-a-serving-of-kale-1540212952">Wall Street Journal article.</a></span></span></span></p> Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:41:25 -0500 Community Stories /magazinenewspaperwebsite/2018-10-03-arkansas-childrens-hospitals-social-needs-screener <p>October 2018—Arkansas Children’s Hospital is advancing the health of its community through its social needs screening tool, which enables the hospital to address food insecurity and other needs like housing, coverage, special education needs and parents' education. Read about the program in <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2018-09-12/hospital-fights-food-insecurity-through-screening-partnerships" target="_blank"">U.S. News and World Report</a>.</p> <p> </p> Wed, 03 Oct 2018 10:47:59 -0500 Community Stories