The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), the not-for-profit research and educational affiliate of the American Hospital Association (AHA), today announced new editorial leadership for its flagship journal, Health Services Research, adding a new Co-Editor-in-Chief and expanded team of senior associate editors.
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Patients and families depend on health insurance to access and be able to afford the care they need when they need it. Today’s proposed rule is a step in the wrong direction for patients and health care providers because it would allow insurers to sell products that do not constitute true “insurance.”
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that John Riggi has joined the association as Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk.
America’s hospitals and health systems believe that the federal budget should not weaken our national commitment to provide access to quality hospital and health system services that provide a lifeline for our patients and communities.
Today’s continuing resolution includes many important provisions that benefit the patients and communities America’s hospitals and health systems are privileged to serve each day. Importantly, this bill delays for two years cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital payments, which are critical to hospitals and health systems that care for our nation’s most vulnerable populations—children, the poor, the disabled and the elderly. This delay will help ensure that hospitals can continue to deliver high-quality care for their patients. We also are encouraged that the bill extends critical rural programs—including the Medicare-dependent Hospital program, the enhanced Low-volume Adjustment program, and the ambulance add-on payment program—that help keep vital care and service in rural America.
The Institute for Diversity and Health Equity (Institute), an affiliate of the American Hospital Association (AHA), today announced its 2018 chair of its board of directors, Nicholas Tejeda, and newly-elected board members with terms beginning Jan. 1, 2018.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today launched the AHA Physician Alliance (Alliance), a new initiative that brings together physicians and their hospitals and health systems in transforming care and advancing health in America.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., January 23, 2018 – In honor of the exceptional efforts to build programs that promote engagement, job growth and access to quality health care in its community of New Haven, Yale New Haven Hospital is awarded the 2017 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service and will receive $100,000 towards programs that further these goals.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 8, 2018) - Steven J.
WASHINGTON (January 9, 2018) – The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that David B.
WASHINGTON (January 10, 2018) – Today, the American Hospital Association (AHA) announced that Mary Lou Mastro, MS, RN, FACHE, System CEO of Edward-Elmhurst He
WASHINGTON (January 12, 2018) – Today, the American Hospital Association (AHA) announced that Joan Coffman, President and CEO of HSHS St.
WASHINGTON (January 16, 2018) – Today, the American Hospital Association (AHA) announced that Kathleen Becker, JD, FACHE, President, SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital in S
WASHINGTON (January 11, 2018) – Today, the American Hospital Association (AHA) announced that Charlotte Ipsan, chief administrative officer of Norton Women’s and Children’s Ho
WASHINGTON, DC (December 18, 2017) – Bryan Slaba, CEO of Wagner Community Memorial Hospital - Avera in Wagner, S.D., is the 2017 recipient of
The conference report released today has mixed results for the hospitals and health systems we represent and the patients we are privileged to care for.