Nancy Agee

Awards & Fellowships, Leadership

Chair File: Caring Partners Turn a Neighborhood Around

“If we can’t do something for our own neighbors, what can we do across town or in another city?”

Human Trafficking, ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Codes and Coding

Chair File: Help Stop the Cycle of Human Trafficking

Today, new ICD-10-CM codes take effect so clinicians can better classify a diagnosis for patients who are victims of human trafficking.

Cybersecurity

Chair File: Greater Connectivity, Potential Cybersecurity Risks

The AHA offers comprehensive cybersecurity resources and risk advisory services for hospital and health systems leaders.

AHA Center for Health Innovation

Chair File: Leading Innovation, Advancing Health

The AHA is opening a new chapter in advancing health in America. We launched the AHA Center for Health Innovation last week to be a catalyst for action as hospitals and health systems continue to redefine the “H” and transform care.

Lead. Connect. Transform. That’s our focus as we harness the best thinking from across the association and across the health care field and beyond to spark collaboration and innovation – and offer the tools, data, resources, and insights for this exciting and, yes, challenging work. 

Quality & Patient Safety, Awards & Fellowships

Chair File: Analytics, community engagement are part of quality commitment

Using and building analytic tools to improve quality of care, focusing on diversity and inclusion, and partnering with patients, families, and communities: All are part of the quality commitment at Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) in Annapolis, Md., and Aurora Health Care (now Advocate Aurora Health) in Milwaukee, both finalists for the 2018 AHA Quest for Quality Prize.

Maternal Health, Awards & Fellowships, Social Determinants of Health

Chair File: Community Partnership Helps Kids Manage Asthma

St. Louis Children’s Hospital launched the Healthy Kids Express Asthma Program in 2009 to address the number 1 diagnosis in the St. Louis public school district and number 1 reason for students missing school.

Disparities/Equity of Care, Awards & Fellowships

Chair File: Care Equity + Diversity = Healthy Communities

Join me in congratulating Navicent Health, recipient of the 2018 Equity of Care Award at the AHA Leadership Summit in late July.

Quality & Patient Safety, Workforce Diversity

Chair File: Embedding Quality Improvement and Embracing Diversity

“Be better tomorrow than we are today” is the goal of Northwell Health, a large system serving a diverse patient population in New York City and the surrounding suburbs of Long Island and Westchester County.

Access to Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Care Delivery

Chair File: Competitors Collaborate to Improve Behavioral Health Care

Four health systems are working together to meet the behavioral health needs of patients in Portland, Oregon.

Making Healthcare More Affordable, The Value Initiative

Chair File: Value-based Strategies to Improve Health and Well-being

The Members in Action series, part of AHA’s The Value Initiative, highlights how hospitals and health systems are implementing new value-based strategies to improve health care affordability, quality and outcomes.