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Housing and Health: A Roadmap for the Future

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Social Determinants of Health, Care Delivery Transformation
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2025 Environmental Scan

Guides and Reports
The 2024 AHA Environmental Scan details data and trends that have implications for the health care field for the coming year and beyond. The Scan will help your staff, leadership and board strategize and plan for the future.
Environmental Scan, Access & Health Coverage, Population/Community Health, Innovation, Making Healthcare More Affordable, Consumerism, Care Delivery Transformation
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Comparison of Care in Hospital Outpatient Departments and Independent Physician Offices 2011-2019

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Comparison of care in hospital outpatient departments and independent physician offices: AHA study reveals why actions implemented by the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten access to care.
Site-Neutral Payment Proposals, Outpatient Prospective Payment Systems (OPPS), Ambulatory and Outpatient Care, Medicare Physician Payment
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Comparison of Care in Hospital Outpatient Departments and Independent Physician Offices 2019-2024

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Site neutral payments may have adverse effects on Medicare patient access to care.
Ambulatory and Outpatient Care, Site-Neutral Payment Proposals
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Societal Factors That Influence Health

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AHA presents a framework to support hospitals and health systems and actions they can take at each level (structural, community, personal) to improve health equity. Numerous studies have demonstrated a link between the social drivers of health and key health outcomes. AHA has worked to promote widespread use of ICD-10-CM codes that enable provider to collect data on the social drivers of health
Care Delivery Transformation, Social Determinants of Health
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Strategies for Improving Postpartum Hemorrhage Outcomes

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AHA and Epic work to expand hospital use of tools that detect and treat postpartum hemorrhage, a serious childbirth complication.
Patient Safety Initiative, Maternal Health
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New Analysis Connects Better Outcomes for Hospitalized Surgical Patients to Improvements in Key Patient Safety Indicators

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Surgical patients had better outcomes in 2024 vs. 2019, with fewer infections, falls, and major complications, per AHA and Vizient® report.
Patient Safety Initiative, Quality & Patient Safety, Post-Acute Care
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Comparison of Care in Hospital Outpatient Departments and Independent Physician Offices Among Cancer Patients

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Site neutral payments may have adverse effects on Medicare cancer patient access to care.
Ambulatory and Outpatient Care, Site-Neutral Payment Proposals
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Suicide Prevention in the Health Care Workforce

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Resources for hospital and health system leaders to improve mental well-being and prevent suicide in the health care workforce
Suicide Prevention, Behavioral Health Care Delivery, Access to Behavioral Health, Workforce, Physician Alliance: Be Well
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Stem the Tide: Addressing the Opioid Epidemic & Taking Action

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This toolkit, released by the AHA, provides guidance and information to hospitals and health systems on how they can partner with patients, clinicians and communities to address the opioid epidemic. Developed with input from a multidisciplinary team of front-line clinicians and subject matter experts, the toolkit includes links to guidelines, training, webinars, reports and other resources.
Opioids, Behavioral Health Care Delivery