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AHA, Advocacy & Public Policy, Community Benefit, Telling the Hospital Story
Hospitals and Caregivers Embody Holiday Spirit Each and Every Day of the Year
Despite significant and ongoing 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.
Environmental Scan, Patient care and Information
Mapping the Horizon to a Brighter Future
Even prior to the pandemic, the biggest questions facing health care providers were: Where is our field headed? And, how can we continue to innovate and transform to deliver the best possible patient care in a fast-changing future?
Quality & Patient Safety
Hospitals Are Leading the Way to Advance Patient Safety
To support and advance those efforts, the AHA recently launched a new Patient Safety Initiative that seeks to energize all the work already underway and reaffirm hospital and health system leadership and commitment to patient safety.
Veteran Hiring, Veterans Administration (VA)
A Salute to Those Who Have Kept America Safe
For nearly 250 years, our courageous and selfless veterans have stood up for the nation’s defense, protecting their countrymen and America’s founding ideals at great personal cost.
Enroll in Health Insurance, Access & Health Coverage
Get Covered: Protect Yourself, Your Family and Your Future During Open Enrollment
Coverage is the gateway to access health services that can ensure healthier individuals, healthier families and healthier communities.
Age-Friendly Health Systems
Transforming Health Care for Older Adults as an Age-Friendly Health System
Older adults are living and working longer than any time in our history, redefining what life’s later stages look like.
Telehealth
Expanding Patient Access to Care No Matter Where They May Be
While telehealth use has skyrocketed these last few years, our laws have not kept up.
Tax-exempt Status, Community Benefit, Access & Health Coverage, Population/Community Health
Hospitals and Health Systems Advance Health for Patients and Communities in Countless Ways
All hospitals and health systems provide an oasis of care, compassion and healing to the patients and communities they serve.
Community Benefit, Setting the Record Straight
New Tunnel-visioned Report Gets It Wrong on Community Benefit
Time and time again, it’s been proven that non-profit hospitals more than earn their tax-exempt status by providing benefits determined to best serve each community.
Cybersecurity, Advocacy & Public Policy
Keeping Up Our Guard to Protect Patients’ Privacy and Access to Safe Care
Cyber criminals are probing the defenses of health care providers every second of every day. Health care continues to be the number one targeted critical infrastructure sector as bad actors attempt to breach patients’ private data, phish for sensitive information and attempt to extort ransomware payments by disabling information and medical technology systems.