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AHA’S Navigating a New Reality Conference Sessions Now Available On-Demand

The content vault from the AHA’s Center for Health Innovation and Society for Health Care Strategy & Market Development’s 'Navigating a New Reality' virtual conference is available on demand.

When Facing an Unforeseeable Future, Culture Is a Strategic Imperative

Tri-County Health Care in Wadena, Minn., experienced a cultural transformation over the past two years that significantly improved employee engagement, patient satisfaction, quality and safety, and other key operating parameters. What its leaders could not have predicted, however, was how this work also would make both the organization and hospital team members more resilient during the COVID-19 crisis and economic fallout that ensued.
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Leadership Rounds with Dr. Mindy Estes and Kevin W. Sowers

Dr. Estes is joined by Kevin W. Sowers, President of the Johns Hopkins Health System and Executive Vice President of Johns Hopkins Medicine, to discuss how hospitals can move from relief, recovery, and rebuilding to reimagining and innovation.
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COVID-19 Workforce Solutions: Team-based Models of Care, Community Partnerships, and Apprenticeships

The AHA has been collecting resources around three categories to assist hospitals and systems in their efforts to plan for the future of the workforce post-COVID-19: apprenticeships, team-based models of care and community partnerships.

Dry hydrogen peroxide may reduce COVID-19 in LTC settings

Dry hydrogen peroxide may reduce COVID-19 infection transmissions in long-term care facilities without requiring additional staff intervention, a study concludes.

Report names factors leading to higher antimicrobial resistance during COVID

A Health and Human Services Department report describes how the COVID-19 pandemic led to a 15% increase in drug-resistant hospital-acquired infections and antimicrobial resistant-related deaths. Factors included severely sick patients who needed mechanical ventilation; long hospital stays and increased caseloads

COVID-19 surges linked to greater risks for all hospitalized patients

Hospitals with greater COVID-19 patient loads confronted higher adverse events for all patients, an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality study found.

Certain PREP Act liability protections for COVID-19 countermeasures extended through 2029 

The Department of Health and Human Services Dec. 10 amended the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act declaration for COVID-19, extending liability protections for certain COVID-19 countermeasure activities through 2029.

AHA supports bipartisan legislation to ease hospital staff shortages

This week, the American Hospital Association (AHA) informed Congressional leaders of the Association’s support for legislation to ease hospital staff shortages.

Hospitals share COVID-19-inspired changes to nursing practice

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced hospitals to adapt in a rapidly changing environment. After a year of operation under these circumstances, hospital CEOs have begun to reassess, stopping some operations and starting others.