The project will support a learning collaborative of essential hospitals seeking to increase access to office-based addiction treatment (OBAT).
view more »Examine how two historically siloed organizations partnered to establish a closed-loop referral system for housing and utility insecurity in the nation’s most uninsured county.
view more »Participants learned how health care, public health, and community organizations formed a structured, community-centric alliance to target social determinants, reduce disparities, and improve health outcomes in Harris County, Texas.
view more »Learn from experts at association member Harris Health System, in Houston, how to identify and mitigate the risk of insider cybersecurity threats.
view more »Awards Honor Exceptional Care, Innovation at Essential Hospitals
June 23, 2022 ||America’s Essential Hospitals awarded Gage Awards to seven hospitals for quality improvement projects, population health initiatives, and COVID-19 response.
view more »Hear leaders from Harris Health System identify the evaluative bias of language and explain how alternative language can mitigate bias and improve overall patient care.
view more »America’s Essential Hospitals, whose more than 300 members care for low-income and other marginalized people, today honored 13 member hospitals for outstanding work to improve health care quality and population health and to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
view more »Essential Hospitals Fight Human Trafficking
March 2, 2021 ||Often serving populations targeted by traffickers, essential hospitals are in a unique position to address this problem. Two association members — Henry Ford Health System and Harris Health System — offer examples of education and best practices for identifying and caring for those affected.
view more »Learn how Harris Health System and community partners are collaborating to improve clinical and cost outcomes in diabetic patients through a Food Rx intervention.
view more »Hear how essential hospitals Harris Health and NYC Health + Hospitals work with their communities to ensure immigrants get the care they need.
view more »Essential Women’s Leadership Academy Empowers Executives
Oct. 31, 2017 ||Two Essential Women's Leadership Academy alumnae reflect on their experiences in this biennial training program that builds empowered hospital executives.
view more »New to Waivers or Veteran, this Is the Summit for You
Aug. 8, 2016 ||As essential hospitals leaders, we all need to stay on top of the evolving landscape for Medicaid Section 1115 waivers. Medicaid waivers offer a key opportunity to make health care delivery more effective and efficient – and to reduce our uncompensated care burden. Consider our experience in Texas. Over the life of the Texas Health
view more »New research brief from Essential Hospitals Institute explores some of the key barriers and subsequent solutions to successful behavioral health and primary care integration in essential hospitals.
view more »Hope and a Home for Acute-Care Dialysis
Aug. 12, 2014 ||Harris Health System has developed a quick triage model and best practices to care for a growing number of acute-care dialysis patients in the Houston area.
view more »The Good Kind of Viral
May 27, 2014 ||Many of America's Essential Hospitals have YouTube channels as a way to engage patients, employees, and the communities they serve through creative and dynamic ways.
view more »Integrating Care Delivery in Four Essential Hospitals
March 20, 2014 ||