AHA Community Health Improvement (ACHI)

Find content about AHA's Association for Community Health Improvement, which aims to advance healthy communities by providing members with education, professional development, resources and engagement opportunities in the fields of community health, population health and community benefit.

Hospital and health system leaders are well-positioned to impact social change in their communities, said Dayna Bowen Matthew, a public health leader and author, at the Association for Community Health Improvement’s 2019 conference.
ACHI and the AHA Workforce Center hosted a webinar on how health systems can develop an inclusive, local hiring pipeline through creating more external community connections and internal career paths.
The AHA is focusing on several areas, including health equity and eliminating care disparities, violence and workplace safety, health system and community collaborations to advance health, and social determinants of health. AHA is working to build on this agenda through innovative campaigns and…
Dr. Farley explains how messages in the mass media can improve population health, showing evidence of both effectiveness and cost-effectiveness.
Pamela Thompson, CEO of the American Organization of Nurse Executives, will introduce AONE's recently released toolkit for mitigating violence in the health care workplace and discuss the implications for leadership practice. Stephen Leff, co-director of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's…
In partnership with the Association for Community Health Improvement, this webinar highlights the Vita Health and Wellness initiative, Stamford, Conn., a community development effort between community stakeholders and Stamford Health.
This webinar, in collaboration with the Association for Community Health Improvement, describes the strategies used to cultivate leadership and create the bridge between the community and the hospital.