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Tactical Brief: Technology-enabled Care | Care Delivery Transformation

Technology touches virtually every part of the health care system, and new technologies are revolutionizing how hospitals provide care. This brief takes a closer look into technology-enabled care. It explores key trends, innovations and learnings, and provides considerations for how hospitals can adopt technology that helps them advance their care delivery strategies.

Member Issue Brief: Implementing Patient Out-of-pocket Cost Estimators

This issue brief lays out the key components of effective online tools used by hospitals and health systems to help patients understand their potential out-of-pocket costs and highlights several different approaches providers have taken.

Peer Support Issue Brief

Hospitals and health systems are enhancing the way they deliver care to improve patient care and outcomes, prepare for the future and strengthen sustainability. One key driver to transforming care is expanding the non-clinical workforce to improve patient experience and outcomes and reduce clinical staff burnout. Peer Support Specialists (PSS) can play an impactful role in helping hospitals and health systems achieve these goals. PSS are people with lived experience, living in recovery from psychiatric and/or substance use disorders, who provide non-clinical, strengths-based support to others seeking individualized recovery guidance.

Issue Brief | Care Delivery Transformation Framework

This issue brief describes each component of the Health Care Transformation Framework.

Getting Engaged

Become an effective advocate by taking action on issues facing nurse leaders.
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The Value Initiative Issue Brief: Measuring the Value of Team-based Care: A Dashboard for Health Care Organizations

Learn about real-life examples of hospitals that have utilized team-based care to improve value.
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Issue Briefs

AHA's Issue briefs frame the issue of affordability and can be used by hospitals and health systems to initiate conversations with stakeholders in their communities.
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Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health: The Time is Now

Unparalleled workforce shortages, negative margins and increasing labor expenses are creating multiple challenges for hospitals and health systems — but integrating physical and behavioral health services can reduce the total cost of care, improve outcomes and improve workforce satisfaction.
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State Infographics – What's at Stake: Medicaid covers the people you know.

Fact: Medicaid chronically underpays for services. Without supplemental payments, Medicaid fee-for-services payments nationally paid 58 cents for every dollar that hospitals spent caring for Medicaid patients, and Medicaid managed care organizations paid 65 cents.
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Issue Brief: Building a Safe Workplace and Community - Community Violence Intervention

The American Hospital Association’s Hospitals Against Violence (HAV) Advisory Group developed the Building a Safe Workplace and Community framework to guide health care leaders in their efforts to prevent and mitigate violence.