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Overview

• Chartbook: Trends Affecting Hospitals and Health Systems, April 2009
• Hospital Facts to Know
• Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals
• A Framework for Health Reform. Health for Life: Better Health, Better Health Care
• Communities Shaping a Vision for America's 21st Century Health and Healthcare
• Prepared to Care: The 24/7 Role of America's Full-Service Hospitals 
• U.S. Health Care Delivery System: Fundamental Facts, Definitions and Statistics
• Overview of the United States Health Care System/Case for a Better Health System
• Beyond Health Care:  The Economic Contribution of Hospitals [2009] 
• Trust Counts Now: Hospitals and Their Communities
• The State of America's Hospitals - Taking the Pulse
  • 2007 AHA Survey of Hospital Leaders
  • 2006 AHA Survey of Hospital Leaders
  • 2005 AHA Survey of Hospital Leaders 
• Value of Investment in Health Care:  Better Care, Better Lives
• A Century of the AHA (Centennial History)
• Cracks in the Foundation: Averting a Crisis in America's Hospitals

Trends

• Futurescan 2009: Healthcare Trends and Implications 2009-2014
• Retirement Plan Trends in Today's Healthcare Market - 2008
• 2009 AHA Environmental Assessment [Report]; [Webcast]
• When I’m 64: How Boomers Will Change Health Care [First Consulting Group]

Information Technology

• Continued Progress: Hospital Use of Information Technology, 2007
• Adopting Technological Innovation in Hospitals: Who Pays and Who Benefits?
• 2008 Most Wired Hospitals
• Health Information Exchange Projects: What Hospitals and Health Systems Need to Know [Manatt Health Solutions]
• Forward Momentum:  Hospital Use of Information Technology

Financial Issues

• Economic Impact on Hospitals and Their Communities
• The Economic Crisis: The Toll on the Patients and Communities Hospitals Serve
• Impact of the Economic Crisis on Health Services for Patients and Communities
• The Road to Economic Recovery: A Proposal to Support Health Care in America [2009]  
• Economic Contribution of Hospitals [2009]
• Report on the Capital Crisis: Impact on Hospitals
• Economic Downturn and Its Impact on Hospitals
• Hospital and Physician Cost Shift: Payment Level Comparison of Medicare, Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial Payers (Milliman)
  • Chartpack
• Cost of Caring: Sources of Growth in Spending for Hospital Care, August 2008 Update
  • Chartpack
• Report on the Economic Crisis: Initial Impact on Hospitals
• Uncompensated Hospital Care Cost Fact Sheet
• Underpayment by Medicare and Medicaid Fact Sheet
• Community Benefit Information from Non-Profit Hospitals: Lessons Learned from the 2006 IRS Compliance Check Questionnaire [Ernst & Young]
• AHA Guidance on Reporting Community Benefit - Community Benefit Reporting Framework
• Consumer Directed Insurance Products: Survey Results [Health savings accounts/health reimbursement arrangements; Reden & Anders]
• AHA White Paper: The State of Hospitals' Financial Health
• Economic Analysis of Healthcare Cost Studies Commissioned by Blue Cross Blue Shield Association [re: mergers]
  • Executive Summary
  • Full Report
• Cost of Carings: Key Drivers of Growth in Spending on Hospital Care
• Cost of Carings:  Sources of Growth in Spending for Hospital Care
• The Fragile State of Hospital Finances
• Health Insurance Underwriting Cycle Effect on Health Plan Premiums and Profitability [Milliman USA]

Workforce Issues

• White Coats and Many Colors: Population Diversity and Its Implications for Health Care
• In Our Hands: Helping Hospital Leaders Build A Thriving Workforce
• Healthcare Workforce Shortage and Its Implications for America's Hospitals (AHA Workforce Survey Results)
• 2003 Hay Compensation Report 

Other Key Topics

• American Presidents and Health Reform: A Chronology
• Redundant, Inconsistent, and Excessive: Administrative Demands Overburden Hospitals
• 2009 Hospital Building Report [construction]
• Physician Ownership and Self-Referral in Hospitals: Research on Negative Effects Grows [Trendwatch]
• Behavioral Health Challenges in the General Hospital: Practical Help for Hospital Leaders
• 8 Decades of Health Care [Hospitals & Health Networks timelines]
• Guidance for Clinical Integration: Working Paper [Hogan & Hartson]
• Impact of Physician-owned Limited-service Hospitals: A Summary of Four Case Studies [McManis Consulting] 
• Hospital Capacity and Emergency Department Diversion: Four Community Case Studies. AHA Survey Results
• Professional Liability Insurance: A Growing Crisis
• Patients Or Paperwork? The Regulatory Burden Facing America's Hospitals