Promoting Healthy Communities
Smoking, diabetes and hospital readmission rates fall and exercising and healthy eating increases in communities where hospitals and health systems use effective strategies to encourage healthy behavior changes, writes Nancy Myers, vice president of leadership and system innovation at the AHA鈥
The Department of Veterans Affairs offers a host of materials to help community partners, including health care organizations, prevent suicide among veterans.
Hospitals and health systems are leading initiatives to foster healthy behaviors and improve the health of individuals and communities, according to new AHA resources highlighting their strategies and successes.
This season鈥檚 flu vaccine has been about 45% effective at preventing flu-related outpatient visits, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
Between 2008 and 2017, the share of adults meeting the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans increased from 19.4% to 25.3% among urban residents and from 13.3% to 19.6% among rural residents.
鈥淣o one should expect that the benefits hospitals provide will be the same for every community,鈥 AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack says in a letter to the editor of Modern Helathcare.
Nebraska hospitals contributed nearly $1.27 billion to programs that benefited their communities in 2016.
The prize honors health care organizations that have demonstrated exceptional commitment to community service.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., January 23, 2018 鈥 In honor of the exceptional efforts to build programs that promote engagement, job growth and access to quality health care in its community of New Haven, Yale New Haven Hospital is awarded the 2017 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service and鈥
Because food insecurity can risk the well-being and development of a child, Arkansas Children鈥檚 Hospital has developed strategies to assist children and families suffering from it.