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Hearing the Voices of Human Trafficking Victims

For health care professionals, victims of human trafficking aren’t easy to spot, and many victims are reluctant to share much about the horror they endured.
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Associate Podcast Series - Ep. 93 | Unite Us

In this episode, Kathleen Wessel, vice president of business management and operations at the American Hospital Association, is joined by Katie Keating, vice president of ​​solutions engineering at Unite Us. Join us as we explore how hospitals are addressing drivers of health such as housing, food, and transportation by embedding community referrals into EHRs and care systems. This enables care teams to respond to non-medical needs within clinical workflows using scalable, privacy-conscious integrations like SMART on FHIR and APIs.
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Community Violence

Discover how the AHA's Hospitals Against Violence initiative is taking action to address community violence and protect hospital employees from its effects.
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Combating Human Trafficking

Resources to identify and assist victims of human trafficking. Resources include ICD-10-CM coding resources and other organizations' initiatives and resources.
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United Against the Flu

United Against the Flu is a collaborative effort by several national health care organizations and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to amplify the importance of getting vaccinated, especially this flu season.
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United Against the Flu toolkit shares messaging on vaccine availability for vulnerable populations 

AHA’s latest social media toolkit for spreading awareness of the flu focuses on the availability of the flu vaccine for at-risk, vulnerable populations as flu season approaches this fall.
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Advocate Condell's pantry program Is nourishing communities and connections

In Libertyville, Illinois, Advocate Condell Medical Center is tackling food insecurity through their innovative Rx Mobile Food Pantry Program, delivering fresh, nutritious food directly to neighborhoods in need.
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Safety first: The tool Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is using to stem firearm accidents

At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in California, getting the right tools in the hands of gun owners is helping prevent tragic ends from occurring.
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MaineHealth learning collaborative closes gaps in care for people experiencing homelessness

The MaineHealth–Preble Street Learning Collaborative (PSLC) was founded by MaineHealth Maine Medical Center, Preble Street — a nonprofit social service agency — and other community partners to provide outreach, engagement and safe, person-centered care to those experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
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Nevada patients get a jolt of hope with new heartbeat tech

Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas recently introduced technology to treat heart rhythm disorders, building on the hospital’s earlier success using pulse field ablation — the delivery of electrical pulses to kill cells causing the irregular heart rhythm.