AHA/HRET Guides
The ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association (AHA) shares guides created by its Health Research and Education Trust (HRET).
Hospitals are working to achieve all elements of the Triple Aim by redesigning traditional ways of delivering care to patients and the community. This collection of case studies features three hospitals and health systems:
SCL Health – Denver, Colorado
This guide describes the types of risks that lead to patient falls, the root causes for those risks and the solutions designed to reduce them. Several case studies in the guide highlight individual hospitals and their experiences preventing falls.
The compendium offers a toolkit on each of the five areas: blood management, antimicrobial stewardship, ambulatory care sensitive conditions, elective percutaneous coronary intervention, and aligning treatment with patient priorities for use of the ICU.
Lessons learned and best practices in identifying community health needs, potential partners, and sustainable partnership structures, as well as recommendations for overcoming obstacles and challenges and assessing partnerships.
HPOE guide, developed by Kaufman Hall, provides key considerations in partnering for population health management, examples of type of partnerships and a process for evaluating these potential partnerships.
As nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. complete a community health needs assessments (CHNA) process, CHNA developers can strengthen the CHNA's rigor and impact by applying a research lens to the process.
This guide features case studies of the 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize winner and finalists. These exemplary hospitals and health systems fully embody the prize's criteria: leadership, commitment, partnership, breadth and depth of initiatives, and community involvement.
This AHA report provides a review of the current state for the behavioral health workforce, outlines a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities that hospitals and health systems are facing and possible new ways to build future capacity.
A key component to making patient care safer is to track your data and progress towards improvement. The HEN 2.0 project, supported by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Partnership for Patients (PFP), provides a number of tools to support hospital leaders. This compilation of…