AHA/HRET Guides

The ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association (AHA) shares guides created by its Health Research and Education Trust (HRET).

The guide includes case studies; a hospital leader checklist; a template for using the people, process and place model; a detailed table outlining eight domains of care measured by the HCAHPS survey with observed relationships to the physical environment; and additional resources list.
Case studies in the guide provide examples of how hospital and health systems, working with community partners, can improve the quality of and access to behavioral health care, while bending the cost curve and improving community health.
Find out how hospitals and healthcare systems can disrupt conventional thinking and redesign care delivery to achieve the Triple Aim.
To achieve these goals, hospital leaders are designing new care delivery systems. Adoption of these new systems can be facilitated by new and innovative payment models that center on individual and community needs by rewarding high-quality.
Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three examples:
By adopting a supplier diversity program, hospitals and health care systems can support minority-owned businesses and communities while obtaining products and services of competitively high quality and value.
Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences.
This collection of case studies from the field highlights diversity initiatives at six hospitals across the country.