Advancing Health

The fifth in the series featured Dr. Estes talking with Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom, Senior Vice President of Community Health & Equity and Chief Wellness & Diversity Officer at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and Michigan's First Surgeon General about health equity. This episode was recorded on October 8, 2020.

Joining us for part 3 of the podcast series is Robyn Begley, CEO of American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL), and CNO at the AHA, in conversation with Agnes Barden, Vice President of Patient & Customer Experience at Northwell Health and Robert Rose, Chief Nursing Officer at Atrium Health's Carolinas Medical Center.

Hospital and health system trustees are promoting value in their communities by tackling societal factors that influence the health and well-being of their communities. A panel of trustees, moderated by Priya Bathija, AHA’s vice president of Strategic Initiatives, will discuss how their boards have made community health a strategic priority for their organizations, and how they prioritize, collaborate, measure and fund these important efforts in partnership with community stakeholders.

Hospital and health system trustees are promoting value in their communities by tackling societal factors that influence the health and well-being of their communities. A panel of trustees, moderated by Priya Bathija, AHA’s vice president of Strategic Initiatives, will discuss how their boards have made community health a strategic priority for their organizations, and how they prioritize, collaborate, measure and fund these important efforts in partnership with community stakeholders.

The fourth in the series featured Dr. Estes joined by Rachelle Schultz, President and CEO, Winona Health, to discuss COVID-19’s impact on health trends and services in Minnesota. This episode was recorded on August 27, 2020.

In this Members n Action podcast, we will focus on Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s age-friendly efforts. This includes the use of the 4Ms Framework in their Geriatric Fracture Program and its integration in telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Estes talks with Dr. David W. Zaas, CEO of MUSC Health - Charleston Division and Chief Clinical Officer for MUSC Health, to discuss COVID-19’s impact on health trends and services in South Carolina.

Joining us today for part 2 of the podcast series is Elisa Arespacochaga, Vice President of Physician Alliance at the AHA, in conversation with Dr. Chris Moriates, Assistant Dean for Health Care Value, Dell Medical Center, and Executive Director at Cost of Care and Dr. Pamela Johnson, Vice President of Care Transformation at Johns Hopkins Health System.

In this Members in Action podcast featuring maternal and child health efforts, we are speaking with Dr. Ken Fawcett, Vice President and Peggy Vander Meulen, Manager of Community Health Programs of Spectrum Health Healthier Communities program. We will dive into the importance of promoting race equity to ensure healthy pregnancies, healthy babies and better outcomes for the community in general.

Marie Cleary-Fishman, AHA's Vice President of Clinical Quality, speaks with Amy Berman, Senior Program Officer at The John A. Hartford Foundation, and Erin Emery-Tiburcio, Associate Professor of Geriatric and Rehabilitation Psychology at Rush University Medical Center. Berman and Emery-Tiburcio share how they used the 4Ms Framework to build a culture that prioritizes the needs of older adults and how these efforts have improved value. This conversation was held at the AHA’s The Value Initiative Executive Forum, Addressing Disruption Through Innovation and Value.

In this Members in Action podcast, featuring maternal and child health efforts, we speaks with Dr. Hyagriv Simhan, Professor of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, and Division Chief of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Beth Quinn, Program Director of Women’s Services, both at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, about innovate strategies the hospital is using to engage women and families through technology

Brought to you by the American Hospital Association’s The Value Initiative and Physician Alliance, the “Value Rounds Podcast Series: Working towards Value Together” will feature leaders from the field to explore how clinicians and hospital leaders must work together to address health care value and affordability. Joining us today for part 1 of the podcast series is Priya Bathija, vice president of Strategic Initiatives at the AHA, in conversation with Dr. David Perlstein, Chief Executive Officer at SBH Health System and Dr. David Zaas, Chief Executive Officer, MUSC Health - Charleston Division, and Chief Clinical Officer for MUSC Health.

In this podcast featuring maternal and child health efforts, we are speaking with care team members from Kearney County Hospital in Lakin, Kansas as they discuss the importance of a growing OB unit, and share the impact of Kearney County’s Pioneer Baby program.

AHA has compiled several case examples demonstrating the struggles and successes of rural hospitals battling COVID-19 in their communities. These have been organized in a compendium available on our website at www.aha.org. For this podcast, we honor our hospital heroes and examine how two rural hospitals are living and learning through COVID-19. Today, we meet with Dr. Lesley Ogden, CEO, Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital, and Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital located in Lincoln County, Oregon.

In this podcast, Priya Bathija, vice president of Strategic Initiatives at the AHA and Dr. Jonathan Weeks, a maternal-fetal medicine physician and the medical director of the MOST Program at Norton Healthcare. Joining them is Charlotte Ipsan, Chief Administrative Officer, Norton Women’s & Children’s Hospital.