The ‘Next Frontier’ in Health Care: Creating Accountable Communities for Health

August 7, 2015

CHOIR Director Dr. Stephen Shortell discusses the creation of Accountable Communities for Health in the July issue of the AHA’s Hospitals & Health Networks Magazine. Accountable Communities for Health, formed when cross-sector organizations come together in accepting responsibility for improving and maintaining the health of a community’s population, may help to address challenges that hospitals and health systems face when managing the care of chronically ill patients in need of an array of community and social services.

Read the full article here to learn what hospitals and health systems can do to spread the creation of Accountable Communities for Health.