Events Schedule

Turn your organization’s health equity plans into action: Join IHA’s expert-led learning collaborative to build out an implementation plan and timeline for a specific equity initiative. This four-part collaborative series, “Health Equity in Action,” will engage hospital leaders organization-wide in equity improvement efforts. Designed for all hospitals, the program will especially benefit those that completed the 2022 IHA Racial Equity in Healthcare Progress Report (Progress Report). Using process improvement strategies, IHA staff will help your organization translate your Progress Report data into concrete steps to advance health equity.

The learning collaborative will center on four pillars for progress:

• Our People: diversity and inclusion in our workforce for better provider-patient communication

• Our Organization: using data and measurement to identify and address organizations

• Our Patients: understanding how disparities play a role in health outcomes

• Our Community: community engagement as a fundamental pillar in reducing disparities

During each session participants will have an opportunity to learn from peers by sharing and hearing about other organizations’ equity initiatives. 

Organizations that have previously participated in an IHA learning collaborative are encouraged to have additional staff attend or to participate again with a different equity initiative. 

See our program flyer.

For more information contact healthequity@team-iha.org.

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Having hypertension is a serious health concern that puts nearly half of adults in the U.S. at risk for heart disease and stroke. Yet only one in four Americans has their high blood pressure under control. Learn how the evidence-based Blood Pressure Self-Monitoring (BPSM) program empowers patients with high blood pressure to take control of their condition. The program was developed by YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention. It helps adults better manage high blood pressure through regular self-monitoring and other heart-healthy activities. This webinar will discuss the program and how Healthy Heart Ambassadors can guide patients to better heart health.

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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and a major cause of heart attacks, strokes and disability for people living with type 2 diabetes, according to the American Heart Association (AHA). Nearly half of American adults have high blood pressure but many don’t know they have it. This webinar series will show you how to reduce health disparities and enhance population health through AHA programs and community initiatives.

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About the 2023 Advocacy Day

In the coming weeks and months, the Illinois General Assembly will focus on issues of critical concern to the hospital community, including our top advocacy priorities: a Medicaid base rate increase for hospitals; enhanced accountability of MCOs in the Medicaid managed care program; and addressing workforce issues, specifically passage of the nurse licensure compact and legislation addressing violence against healthcare workers. How these issues will be resolved hinges on our collective effectiveness in reaching legislators with our key messages and our strong, unified voice.

Hospital Advocacy Day is a great opportunity for hospital and health system leaders to meet face-to-face with your legislators and share how legislation will impact your organization and the patients you serve. 
 

Legislative Fact Sheets

See the following fact sheets for a background, synopsis and the IHA position on Senate Bills 1763 and 1863.

• Support Senate Bill 1763 - Hospital Medicaid Rate Increase

• ​Support Senate Bill 1863 - Protect Hospital Workers from Violence

See the following fact sheet for information on IHA's opposition to Mandatory Nurse Staffing Ratios.​

• Oppose Mandatory Nurse Staffing Ratios

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Turn your organization’s health equity plans into action: Join IHA’s expert-led learning collaborative to build out an implementation plan and timeline for a specific equity initiative. This four-part collaborative series, “Health Equity in Action,” will engage hospital leaders organization-wide in equity improvement efforts. Designed for all hospitals, the program will especially benefit those that completed the 2022 IHA Racial Equity in Healthcare Progress Report (Progress Report). Using process improvement strategies, IHA staff will help your organization translate your Progress Report data into concrete steps to advance health equity.

The learning collaborative will center on four pillars for progress:

• Our People: diversity and inclusion in our workforce for better provider-patient communication

• Our Organization: using data and measurement to identify and address organizations

• Our Patients: understanding how disparities play a role in health outcomes

• Our Community: community engagement as a fundamental pillar in reducing disparities

During each session participants will have an opportunity to learn from peers by sharing and hearing about other organizations’ equity initiatives. 

Organizations that have previously participated in an IHA learning collaborative are encouraged to have additional staff attend or to participate again with a different equity initiative. 

See our program flyer.

For more information contact healthequity@team-iha.org.

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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and a major cause of heart attacks, strokes and disability for people living with type 2 diabetes, according to the American Heart Association (AHA). Nearly half of American adults have high blood pressure but many don’t know they have it. This webinar series will show you how to reduce health disparities and enhance population health through AHA programs and community initiatives.

Learn More About This Event

Turn your organization’s health equity plans into action: Join IHA’s expert-led learning collaborative to build out an implementation plan and timeline for a specific equity initiative. This four-part collaborative series, “Health Equity in Action,” will engage hospital leaders organization-wide in equity improvement efforts. Designed for all hospitals, the program will especially benefit those that completed the 2022 IHA Racial Equity in Healthcare Progress Report (Progress Report). Using process improvement strategies, IHA staff will help your organization translate your Progress Report data into concrete steps to advance health equity.

The learning collaborative will center on four pillars for progress:

• Our People: diversity and inclusion in our workforce for better provider-patient communication

• Our Organization: using data and measurement to identify and address organizations

• Our Patients: understanding how disparities play a role in health outcomes

• Our Community: community engagement as a fundamental pillar in reducing disparities

During each session participants will have an opportunity to learn from peers by sharing and hearing about other organizations’ equity initiatives. 

Organizations that have previously participated in an IHA learning collaborative are encouraged to have additional staff attend or to participate again with a different equity initiative. 

See our program flyer.

For more information contact healthequity@team-iha.org.

Learn More About This Event

Turn your organization’s health equity plans into action: Join IHA’s expert-led learning collaborative to build out an implementation plan and timeline for a specific equity initiative. This four-part collaborative series, “Health Equity in Action,” will engage hospital leaders organization-wide in equity improvement efforts. Designed for all hospitals, the program will especially benefit those that completed the 2022 IHA Racial Equity in Healthcare Progress Report (Progress Report). Using process improvement strategies, IHA staff will help your organization translate your Progress Report data into concrete steps to advance health equity.

The learning collaborative will center on four pillars for progress:

• Our People: diversity and inclusion in our workforce for better provider-patient communication

• Our Organization: using data and measurement to identify and address organizations

• Our Patients: understanding how disparities play a role in health outcomes

• Our Community: community engagement as a fundamental pillar in reducing disparities

During each session participants will have an opportunity to learn from peers by sharing and hearing about other organizations’ equity initiatives. 

Organizations that have previously participated in an IHA learning collaborative are encouraged to have additional staff attend or to participate again with a different equity initiative. 

See our program flyer.

For more information contact healthequity@team-iha.org.

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IHA and ICAHN teamed up to offer Making Your Voice Count, a comprehensive training program designed for healthcare leaders who would like to become more effective advocates for their hospital/health system. This dynamic program will explore the challenges of effective communication and advocacy in Illinois’ ever-changing healthcare policy environment—and how to overcome those challenges.

The program consists of four modules taken over the course of six months. Participants have the option of attending in-person or online via live videoconferencing. Attendance at IHA Advocacy Day will be in-person in Springfield.

Click here to access the event flyer.

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Building a vibrant rural health system means keeping one eye on the present with another solidly focused on the future. It means looking for new solutions to persistent challenges while anticipating new competitors in the field. With deep roots in your communities, small and rural hospitals are well positioned to reshape healthcare for the future by building on milestones of the past.

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