Innovative Nurse-Led Initiatives Improve Population Health

The evolving healthcare environment has put a new emphasis on population health. Healthcare organizations, and the nurses who work in them, are in a unique position to reach beyond hospital walls to address unmet needs and improve the health and lives of the community they serve. This month's Magnet Perspectives column examines nurses' growing impact on population health through the lens of the 2019 Magnet Prize winner, OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center. Learn how OSF Saint Francis nurses developed an innovative program to address food insecurity among their community's most vulnerable residents and improve health outcomes. The column also explores how American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet-recognized organizations promote strong external partnerships that extend nurses' influence from the traditional one-patient-at-a-time approach to broader, population-based outreach.