Community Partnerships
This issue brief from the ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association highlights housing security as a significant factor in COVID-19 prevention and treatment. It offers five actions that hospitals and health systems can take to address housing instability and improve health in their communities, with links to…
Loyola Medicine has maintained a strong partnership with its neighboring communities in Chicago’s near western suburbs. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, this health system-community partnership helped residents in these economically-challenged communities in many ways, including providing nutritious…
2020 Committee Members
Karen Wells (Chair)
Past Chair
CHRISTUS St. Vincent Health System
Santa Fe, NM
Schonay M. Barnett-Jones
Board Member
Children’s National Medical Center
Washington, DC
Nancy Combs, MA
Director of Community Health Integration (retired)
Henry Ford…
In this podcast, Nancy Myers, vice president of leadership and system innovation at the AHA interviews, Nancy Combs, Henry Ford Health System’s director of community health integration.
June 5 is the fourth annual Hospitals Against Violence Hope (#HAVhope) Friday.
As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, Bruce Bailey, president and CEO of Tidelands Health based in Georgetown, S.C., talks about how hospitals and health systems without inpatient behavioral health services or onsite mental health clinicians can still address the needs of these patients.
The ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association has a longstanding commitment to improving access to high quality, affordable treatment services for psychiatric and substance use disorders; commonly referred to has behavioral health disorders. This podcast series will explore one health system’s collaborative…
A new resource from AHA helps hospitals and health systems think through in under an hour how to partner with other organizations to meet their needs during the pandemic.
This resource highlights steps hospitals can and are taking to address disparities that arise during the fight against COVID-19.
In this podcast, Darren Henson, AHA’s director at the Institute for Diversity & Health Equity, explores how despite the COVID-19 outbreak, Loyola University Medical Center – serving the Chicago area – remains committed to its partnership with a community-driven, multi-sector coalition.…