Community Connections Resources
Telling the Hospital Story: Going Beyond Schedule H
Community Connections: Community Accountability and Transparency
Helping Hospitals Better Serve Their Communities (November 2007)
AHA Policies, Guidelines, and Checklist
Care in Action
How the people and programs of America's not-for-profit hospitals benefit their communities every day.
Prepared to Care
Hospitals play a unique role in America's health care system: access to care all day, every day, serving as the medical safety net for the community, being ready when disaster strikes and providing critical services often taken for granted and not explicitly funded.
Strengthening Community Trust: Strategies for CEOs
This guide will help you and other members of your leadership team advance a community leadership strategy. It has three parts: “Measuring the Community Connection: A Strategy Checklist for Leaders”, “Testing the Community Connection” and “Ideas in Action”.
Measuring the Community Connection: A Strategy Checklist for Leaders
This checklist provides a framework for thinking about accountability and community outreach, increasing dialogue and hard wiring this thinking into an organization’s strategies and structure.
Trust Counts Now
This powerful report by former AHA Board Chair and CEO, John King looks at how hospital leaders can bring the community closer to their organizations by leading the organization closer to the community.
Partners
Center to Advance Palliative Care
The Case For Hospital Palliative Care; a go-to resource for hospitals and health care organizations looking for step-by-step implementation and resource requirements for a Palliative Care team.
FDA's Office on Women's Health
Publications and factsheets are available to hospitals in both English and Spanish and feature topics ranging from diabetes, arthritis and heart disease to medication safety and depression. The publications and fact sheets can be downloaded or bulk copies can be ordered via http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ByAudience/ForWomen/FreePublications.
National Consensus Project For Quality Palliative Care
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Palliative Care; for hospitals and health care organizations with a Palliative Care practice underway, tips for building on existing practices and enhancing physician and nurse efforts.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Discussion Guide to Help Clinicians Discuss Treatment Options/Palliative Care with Patients and Families; helpful tips to better communicate with patients and loved ones on the important issue of palliative care as part of broader treatment options.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) serves as a clearinghouse for information and materials designed to improve the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, alcohol and drug addiction treatment and mental health services.
Resources List
Talking With Your Adult Patients About Alcohol, Drug, and/or Mental Health ProblemsA Discussion Guide for Primary Health Care Providers
Association for Community Health Improvement
Community Benefit Resources
ACHI site includes sample community benefit policies, state reporting programs, as well as articles and tools. ACHI is an AHA-affiliate and a membership organization devoted to community health and community benefit.
Health Research & Educational Trust
Report of the National Steering Committee on Hospitals and the Public’s Health
This Health Research and Educational Trust report has helpful recommendations for better integrating health systems and the public health system.
Other Resources
Guide for Planning and Reporting Community Benefit
A guide for non-for-profit health care organizations provided by the Catholic Health Association of the United States.
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