Rick Pollack, President and CEO, AHA
Articles
Access & Health Coverage
American Health Care Has Always Stood behind Our People in Uniform
We at the American Hospital Association, all of our members, and the individuals working in hospitals and health systems across America, salute our fallen. We work in health care to help save lives, but we understand firsthand the toll of loss, especially the loss of young lives given in service.
Access to Behavioral Health
We Must Integrate Physical and Behavioral Health to Truly Advance Health in America
After three years of caring on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic, health care providers are confronting a landscape deeply altered by its effects, including the emergence of behavioral health care as an even greater challenge.
Legislation and Legislative Advocacy
We Need to Stop Legislation that Would Jeopardize Access to Care
Yesterday marked the official end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. For more than three years, hospitals, health systems and front-line health care workers have worked tirelessly to care for patients, comfort families and protect communities.
Workforce
Recognizing the People Who Deliver Healing and Hope during National Hospital Week and National Nurses Week
This year’s observance of National Hospital Week, May 7-13, and National Nurses Week, May 6-12, are opportunities to thank our dedicated caregivers and recognize the tremendous job they have done taking care of our country through one of the most trying episodes in our history.
Access & Health Coverage, Workforce
Standing Up for Patients and Protecting Access to Care
We must stabilize hospitals’ finances to ensure access to patient care. We must strengthen the health care workforce.
Workforce Shortages, Financial Management, Medicaid, Medicare, Supply chain management, Workforce Supply and Demand
America Needs Strong Hospitals to Foster Healthy and Thriving Communities
Hospitals and health systems are facing many significant challenges, including historic workforce shortages, soaring costs of providing care, cracks in the supply chain, severe underpayment by Medicare and Medicaid, and overwhelming regulatory and administrative burdens, just to name a few. These challenges are jeopardizing access to care and services for patients and communities.
AHA Annual Membership Meeting
Working Together to Advance Health in America
Hospital and health system leaders from across the country next weekend will begin to arrive in Washington, D.C. for the 2023 AHA Annual Membership Meeting
Medicaid, CHIP
As the PHE Ends, Working to Ensure Individuals and Families Have Access to Health Care Coverage
Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program are facing the most significant coverage challenge since the passage of the Affordable Care Act 13 years ago.
Health Equity
Making Progress on Health Equity … But We Must Do More
One year ago, we asked hospitals and health systems to participate in an important effort – AHA’s Health Equity Roadmap.
Setting the Record Straight, Commercial Insurer Accountability
Washington Post Letter to Editor: Hospitals do more to support those in need
The March 21 Health & Science article “Many Americans — especially those below U.S. poverty level — are buried in hospital bills” missed a major reason that medical debt has increased in our country: the rise of high-deductible and skinny insurance plans that result in larger out-of-pocket expenses for consumers.