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ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS INSTITUTE
Elevate care with evidence and experience
About the Institute
Essential Hospitals Institute leads research, education, dissemination, and leadership development for America’s Essential Hospitals. To advance the quality, equity, safety, and affordability of care at essential hospitals, the Institute identifies promising practices in the field, provides professional development training, promotes practice improvements, and disseminates innovative approaches to care. It does this with an eye toward improving individual and population health, especially for underrepresented and marginalized people and communities.
Institute Board and Staff
A 16-member board provides strategic direction and oversight for the activities of Essential Hospitals Institute. In Washington, DC, the Institute’s professional staff carries out day-to-day research, quality improvement, and leadership development work.
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Partners and Funders
Essential Hospitals Institute works with a diverse group of partners and funders. We prioritize strategic collaboration with organizations that share a similar mission and with whom we can mutually support essential health care providers and their patient populations.
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Leadership Development
Fellows Program
For more than 30 years, the Fellows Program has brought essential hospitals leaders together to unflinchingly look at the enormous challenges they face and provide the tools necessary to meet those challenges. The program includes a network of more than 650 alumni, some of whom have become CEOs of essential hospitals, C-suite leaders, and national health care thought leaders.
Essential Women’s Leadership Academy
The Essential Women’s Leadership Academy is a 10-month leadership development program designed to build a community of confident and empowered women executives who lead essential hospitals in meeting the challenges of our nation’s most vulnerable populations.
The Role of Essential Hospitals in Combating Structural Racism
Many hospital systems grapple with their role in combating the history of racism to promote equity. This new informational brief begins with a background on the impact of structural racism on patients, providers, and the community and a description of a workstream to combat structural racism for America’s Essential Hospitals and its members.
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Essential Data: Our Hospitals, Our Patients
This annual snapshot of America's Essential Hospitals' membership tells a story about the essential people and communities our members serve.
View the summary and full report »Population Health Leadership at Essential Hospitals: A Toolkit for Hiring and Evaluating
The social determinants of health are being addressed by essential hospitals across the country. But how do they find leaders that can take charge of these initiatives? Our Essential Hospital Institute offers a new toolkit for hiring and evaluating population health leaders.
learn more »Cost of Care Conversations Library
A new online library of guides, videos, infographics, and other tools to help essential hospitals and clinicians talk with vulnerable patients about the cost of care and to incorporate these conversations into the clinical workflow.
learn more »Interactive Tour of Population Health at Essential Hospitals
EssentialCommunities.org provides a resource for hospitals on the journey to community-integrated health care. Learn more about how our hospitals address social and economic factors that influence health, take a virtual tour of population health programs nationwide, and share a program of your own.
visit EssentialCommunities.org »About America’s Essential Hospitals
America’s Essential Hospitals is the leading association and champion for hospitals dedicated to equitable, high-quality care for all, including those who face social and financial barriers to care. Since 1981, America’s Essential Hospitals has advanced policies and programs that promote health, health care access, and equity.
For information about the availability of auxiliary aids and services specific to our federally funded programs, please visit: https://www.medicare.gov/about-us/accessibility-nondiscrimination-notice.
Essential Data: Our Hospitals, Our Patients – Results of America’s Essential Hospitals 2020 Annual Member Characteristics Survey
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Access and Quality for All
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