Rick Pollack, President and CEO, AHA
Articles
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.
Affordable Care Act
13 Years After the ACA: Modernizing the Health Care Laws to Meet Changing Needs
Some of the most impactful laws passed in our country have needed to be revisited and fine-tuned to remain relevant to peoples’ lives.
Patient care and Information, Quality & Patient Safety
Hospitals and Health Systems Can be Leaders in Combating Public Health Misinformation
Hospitals and health systems can play an important role in ensuring patients have trustworthy, accurate and scientifically sound information to help them make the best health care decisions for themselves and their loved ones.
Tax-exempt Status, Community Benefit, Setting the Record Straight
Hospitals and Health Systems More than Earn their Tax Exemption
The international firm EY has looked at how the benefits tax-exempt hospitals provide stack up against their federal tax exemption. Last year’s report showed the spread was 9 to 1 – for every $1 of exemption, reporting hospitals provided $9 of benefit to the community.