Like many essential hospitals, Cambridge Health Alliance has a deep connection with the community, working every day to achieve better outcomes. Learn more about how they do it from their CEO, Assad Sayah, MD, on this episode of The Safety Net Pulse.

Mobile health care is a successful form of care delivery that can bring incredible value to health care systems. Memorial Healthcare System in Fort Lauderdale, Florida has embedded itself in its community through its robust mobile health program. On this episode of The Safety Net Pulse, we get to hear about the program's origin, activities, challenges, and future direction in an insightful conversation with its leaders.

More mobile health resources:

• Report: Delivering Care Beyond Hospital Walls: Best Practices in Mobile Health
• Webinar: Strengthening Mobile Health Programs at Essential Hospitals

Cardiac rehab plays a huge role in the outcomes for cardiac patients. But getting this care can be difficult in rural settings. Essential Hospital TMC Health in Tucson, Arizona knows this firsthand. Their Heart Close to Home program has helped to close this gap in care and improve access. We hear from their experts on how this program was implemented.

We sit down with experts to discuss the mechanics of local funding for hospitals and how the looming Medicaid cuts will impact this funding in the future.

You can learn more by downloading our brief on the topic here: Public Funds Sustain Essential Hospitals.

America's Essential Hospitals new president and CEO, Jennifer DeCubellis, sits down to discuss her pathway to this new role, why our members are so critical in this challenging health care environment, and even a little bit of music history!

Essential hospitals provide large, and likely drastically increasing, amounts of uncompensated care to patients. Learn more about the impact of uncompensated care on essential hospitals and how they adapt to be able to continue serving in their communities.

Essential Hospitals leverage Medicaid state directed payments (SDPs) to ensure the ability to provide quality care to all who come through their doors. In this episode, explore how our members rely on SDPs to meet the needs of patients, regardless of ability to pay.

Essential Hospitals play an indispensable role in keeping all Americans healthy, including rural Americans. In this episode, explore how our members meet patients where they are through integrated systems of care and training of health care providers.

In communities that otherwise lack access to care, essential hospitals reach outside their walls to meet patients’ needs. Telehealth services have proved to be an important tool for providers to increase access to care for underserved populations. In this episode, learn how essential hospitals use telehealth to provide patient-centered care that best meets the unique needs and circumstances of individuals and communities.

Essential Hospitals are using an innovative program – the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver – to enhance care delivery, improve patient outcomes, and address broader health equity issues. In this episode, learn about what the program is and how essential hospitals utilize the program to innovatively meet the needs of the communities they serve.