Hospitals & Health Systems

Community organizations co-lead four new studies examining affordability of care for historically marginalized communities, awarded under the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Research in Transforming Health and Healthcare Systems program, managed by AcademyHealth.

Watch the video for reflections on advances in health equity from the American Hospital Association’s Joy Lewis and learn more about the Health Equity Roadmap, a tool to help hospitals and health systems become more inclusive.

Experts from The Leapfrog Group, an AcademyHealth organizational member, explore the challenges of translating diagnostic research into widespread action. A new initiative aims to address this and rapidly reduce harm from diagnostic error through public reporting and accountability.

Virginia Sun, the 2021-2022 NCI/AcademyHealth visiting scholar, discusses the importance of improving healthcare delivery for older adults with cancer.

Rural health care systems have seen dramatic shifts in recent decades. This ‘plain language summary’ reviews recent research published in AcademyHealth’s official journal, HSR, which addresses the current state of rural hospitals and how new investments can prevent ongoing health disparities and reinvigorate the health of rural Americans.

New competency area will elevate and help to unify equity work in health systems 

This report focuses on the care coordination functions that support the interventions and services within a whole-child approach to children’s health care.