Audio/Podcasts
Statistics show that doula services 鈥 which provide help and suggestions on comfort measures such as breathing, relaxation, movement and positioning 鈥 are effective in reducing stress and anxiety in expectant mothers, while improving birthing experience and outcomes.
At Dell Seton Medical Center, clinicians observed that patients with opioid use disorder had a high likelihood of readmission because its underlying causes were not being addressed.
AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., hosts short conversations on a range of key issues with hospital and health system leaders from across the country.
COVID-19 has prompted many changes in the way hospitals manage and care for their patients. As hospitals across the nation deal with the ebb and flow of COVID-19 patients and shortages of intensive-care-unit beds, North Carolina鈥檚 Atrium Health has found a promising solution to increasing their鈥
Michigan-based Trinity Health鈥檚 Transforming Communities Initiative is a 鈥渢hink big鈥 approach to health care, targeting such underlying problems as youth tobacco use and childhood obesity.
AHA鈥檚 Advancing Health podcast channel recently ranked 7th on Feedspot鈥檚 Top 55 Healthcare Leadership Podcasts To Follow in 2020.
More than one in four individuals in a recent national survey reported they would wait four months or longer to seek previously skipped medical care due to fear of COVID-19.
In this two-part Trustee Insights podcast, senior health leaders discuss challenges board members can expect to encounter as they strive for health equity and how best to meet them.
On this Advancing Health podcast, Joy Lewis, AHA vice president for strategic policy planning, and Allen Smart, principal at Winston-Salem, N.C.-based PhilanthropywoRx, discuss the imperative for rural hospital leaders to develop long-term strategies where community engagement and philanthropy meet鈥
Hospitals and health systems are redesigning their delivery systems to bring improved outcomes at lower cost. In this podcast, AHA鈥檚 Julia Resnick explores with University of Tennessee Medical Center leaders an approach that concentrates on developing disease specific, patient-centric plans.