Community Partnerships
AHA鈥檚 Association for Community Health Improvement鈥檚 annual conference is a chance for health care leaders to shape population health and equity initiatives from the ground up.
In this webinar Rita Carreon, Deputy Vice President, Health with UnidosUS, and Jillian Warriner, manager of community benefit and health improvement at Sharp HealthCare discussed how building community collaboration and introducing novel partnerships are key to achieving health equity and ensure鈥
The Welcome Baby Program is part of a community network of programs that work together to provide supportive services to families with newborns.
The current behavioral health system is not fully meeting the needs of patients in New Jersey, where more than 240,000 adults live with a severe mental illness and a growing number of adults require treatment for substance use disorder. To address these challenges, five health systems have joined鈥
The 黑料正能量 Association and UnidosUS formed an alliance to build healthy, equitable and resilient communities. Both of our organizations understand that it is critical that hospital and health systems鈥 leadership reflect the growing diversity of their patients and staff 鈥 and of our鈥
Collaborating with community based organizations is more important now than ever. Hospital and health systems across the country are 鈥渞edefining the H鈥 by looking outside of their four walls to create innovative and sustainable partnerships that ultimately lead to healthier communities. At the鈥
In 2014, a group of stakeholders in Kansas City 鈥 including representatives from law enforcement, hospitals, courts, city government, mental health, and homeless shelters 鈥 started convening monthly to determine how to provide appropriate help to individuals with behavioral health issues who don鈥檛鈥
To achieve health equity, all of us鈥攈ospitals and health systems, allied hospital associations, and local, state and national stakeholders鈥攚ill need to partner and prioritize the work that improves the health of our communities.
Seventy-one percent of respondents predict that, over the next five years, their organization will increase collaboration with other providers and payers on population health management as a strategy to improve clinical outcomes.
Learn how five local hospital systems created a course to train people to perform "adult mental health first aid," giving members of the public skills to help someone who is developing or experiencing a mental health crisis