Rick Pollack, President and CEO, AHA

AHA Annual Membership Meeting, Accelerating Health Equity Conference, AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, AHA Leadership Summit, Leadership

Mark Your Calendars for 2023 AHA Meetings

“Hospitals and health systems come in all shapes and sizes, but at the end of the day, you’re providing care to people.

Health Equity

Hospitals Continue Efforts to Help Realize Dr. King’s Dream

Hospitals and health systems have a special role to play in helping to realize Dr. King’s dream of a truly just society.

Post-Acute Care, Metropolitan Anchor Hospital (MAH), Medicare, 340B Drug Pricing Program, Workforce, Regulatory Relief

Advancing Health in America Is a Bipartisan Goal We Can All Get Behind

The convening of the 118th Congress this week is a reminder of Washington’s highly-charged political environment.

AHA, Members, Advocacy & Public Policy, Workforce, Well-Being & Resilience

Hospitals’ Spirit of Caring Shines Bright through a Challenging Year

Despite unprecedented challenges this year, hospitals and health systems can be proud of the job they do each and every day to care for our families, our friends and our neighbors.

Advocacy & Public Policy, Environmental Scan, Legislation and Legislative Advocacy

Looking Ahead with AHA’s 2023 Environmental Scan

Challenges. Resilience. Innovation. Opportunities.

These four words help describe the current environment facing our hospitals and health systems — nearly three years into a pandemic that has transformed the nation’s health care landscape and our society.

Advocacy & Public Policy, Medicare, Medical Education/Teaching Hospitals, Post-Acute Care, Telehealth, Medicare Advantage, Metropolitan Anchor Hospital (MAH)

Putting on a Full-court Press to Secure Support for Hospitals and Patients

As Congress convenes for its post-election lame-duck session, we are turning up the pressure to secure additional support for hospitals and the patients and communities they serve. We need to put on a full-court press — and that includes all of us reaching out to our senators and representatives — to urge them to include a number of key priorities in a year-end spending package.

Leadership, Workforce

Many Reasons to Be Thankful Despite Difficult Challenges

For more than 400 years, we have paused each fall to give thanks. We do so during good times and bad because most years bring a mixture of both.

This year, our world, our nation and our field face many difficult challenges. But that’s why it’s so important that we take the time to express our gratitude for the many things we are thankful for. This includes the amazing work that hospitals and health systems do — every minute of every hour of every day of the year — to advance health in America.

Veteran Hiring, Recognition and Awards

Giving Thanks Today and Always for America’s Veterans

The news is filled daily with accounts of conflict around the globe … notably Russia’s war against Ukraine, but other potential clashes bubble near the surface, such as military action by China against Taiwan, or a North Korean missile aimed at Japan.

We cannot know for sure what this unsettled era will bring. But we do know that we are blessed with the strongest, bravest and best-trained guardians a nation can have: the individuals who wear the military uniform of the United States of America.

Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19), Rural issues, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medical Education/Teaching Hospitals

Exercise Your Precious Right to Vote on Nov. 8

There are many significant milestones in our nation’s history of voting.

Legislation and Legislative Advocacy, Population/Community Health

Making the Case for Additional Federal Support for Hospitals

After Election Day, lawmakers will return to Washington to consider many important issues, including funding the government, the annual must-pass defense bill, hurricane aid, election reform and tax extenders.