AHA Center for Health Innovation

With nowhere else to go, individuals in need of behavioral health care are increasingly turning to hospitals for help. The surge in demand has overwhelmed resources at even the best staffed hospitals. A well-designed behavioral health strategy should consider the full continuum of care, including鈥
General Catalyst (GC) increasingly has become focused on engaging and supporting startups and bringing together transformation-minded health care systems to reduce friction, inefficiency and cost while accelerating innovation, said Daryl Tol at the recent AHA Leadership Summit.
In the Aug. 29 AHA Leadership Scan episode, 鈥淎dopt Proven Strategies to Navigate Today鈥檚 Nursing Workforce,鈥 experts will examine the playbooks of top-performing health systems.
Six health care startups shared their approaches to addressing complex challenges in areas like improving access to high-quality mental health, delivering clinical risk intelligence for hospitals and leveraging enterprise time-study data to optimize caregivers鈥 performance.
Integrating sustainability into all aspects of a hospital鈥檚 mission takes focused commitment across the organization, as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) leaders can attest. Two years ago, MGH launched its Center for the Environment and Health.
鈥淚n the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.鈥 This anonymous quote 鈥 which some have attributed to Albert Einstein 鈥 sums up one lesson from the pandemic. Looking back 3 1/2 years after the early days of COVID-19, we can better appreciate how the pandemic鈥檚 extraordinarily difficult days also鈥
The LLN highlights Grady Health and its contributions to the field in the areas of patient safety and the quality of care provided to its community.
The Living Learning Network (LLN) series of look books showcasing member stories. Including stories from the field and site visits.