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Reports and Studies
Overview
- Prepared to Care: The 24/7 Role of America's Full-Service Hospitals (2012)
- AHA at a Glance
- Health Care Reform: Implementation Timeline [members only].
- Chartbook: Trends Affecting Hospitals and Health Systems, 2009/2010
- Guide to Achieving High Performance in Multi-Hospital Health Systems
- Brief Guide to the U.S. Health Care Delivery System: Facts, Definitions, and Statistics [Click here for online copy for purchase]
- 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 (2006)
- Trust Counts Now: Hospitals and Their Communities
- The State of America's Hospitals - Taking the Pulse
- 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
- 2013 AHA Environmental Scan
- Futurescan 2012: Healthcare Trends and Implications 2012–2017
- Hospitals and Care Systems of the Future
- 2012 AHA Environmental Scan
- Strategic Issues Forecast 2015 [2010]
- Strategic Issues Forecasting Report [2009]
- Retirement Plan Trends in Today's Healthcare Market - 2010
- 2011 AHA Environmental Assessment
- Retirement Plan Trends in Today's Healthcare Market - 2008
- 2010 AHA Environmental Assessment
- When I’m 64: How Boomers Will Change Health Care [First Consulting Group]
Information Technology
- Most Wired 2012
- 2011 Most Wired Hospitals
- AHA Survey on Hospitals’ Ability to Meet Meaningful Use Requirements of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records Incentive Programs
- Health Care Leader Action Guide on Implementation of Electronic Health Records
- 2010 Most Wired Hospitals
- The Road to Meaningful Use: What it Takes to Implement Electronic Health Record Systems in Hospitals [Trendwatch]
- 2009 Most Wired Hospitals
- Continued Progress: Hospital Use of Information Technology, 2007
- Adopting Technological Innovation in Hospitals: Who Pays and Who Benefits?
- Health Information Exchange Projects: What Hospitals and Health Systems Need to Know [Manatt Health Solutions]
- Forward Momentum: Hospital Use of Information Technology
Financial Issues
- Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Assets
- Issue Brief: Moving Towards Bundled Payment
- Economic Contribution of Hospitals Often Overlooked (2013)
- Exploring the Impact of the RAC Program on Hospitals Nationwide; Results of AHA RACTrac Survey [quarterly]
- Uncompensated Hospital Care Cost Fact Sheet
- Medicare Payment Bundling: Insights from Claims Data and Policy Implications; Analyses of Episode-based Payment
- The Costs of Caring: Sources of Growth in Spending for Hospital Care, June 2012 Update
- Hospital Billing and Collection Practices Statement of Principles and Guidelines
- Guide to Strategic Cost Transformation in Hospitals and Health Systems
- Results of the 2009 Schedule H Project [Ernst & Young – hospital spending on community benefits]
- Exploring the Impact of the RAC Program on Hospitals Nationwide: Results of AHA RACTrac Survey, 2ndQuarter 2011
- Economic Contribution of Hospitals [2011]
- Limiting Federal Spending as a Proportion of Total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Case Study: Variations on the “Commitment to American Prosperity Act (CAP)” [Lewin Group]
- Cost of Caring: Drivers of Spending on Hospital Care [2011 update]
- Assessment of Cost Trends and Price Differences for U.S. Hospitals [Compass Lexecon] [AHA Summary]
- A Guide to Financing Strategies for Hospitals - With Special Consideration for Smaller Hospitals
- Report of the Task Force on Variation in Health Care Spending
- Exploring the Impact of the RAC Program on Hospitals Nationwide. Results of AHA RACTrac Survey, 3rd Qtr 2010
- Early Lessons from the Bundled Payment Acute Care Episode Demonstration Project
- Hospitals Continue to Feel Lingering Effects of Economic Recession
- Exploring the Impact of the RAC Program on Hospitals Nationwide. Results of AHA RACTrac Survey
- Bundled Payment: AHA Research Synthesis Report
- Cost of Caring: Sources of Growth in Spending on Patient Care in Hospitals, March 2010 Update
- Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending: a Closer Look [Trendwatch]
- 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]
- 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
- 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]
- Cost of Caring: Key Drivers of Growth in Spending on Hospital Care
- Cost of Caring: 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
- Workforce Roles in a Redesigned Primary Care Model
- Creating the Hospital of the Future: The Implications for Hospital-Focused Physician Practice
- Negative Employment Impacts of the Medicare Cuts in the Budget Control Act of 2011
- A Guide to Physician Integration Models for Sustainable Success
- Lifelong Learning: Physician Competency Development
- 278,000 Jobs at Risk: The Negative Economic Impact of the Budget Control Act of 2011 and H.R. 3630(Legislation extending the Social Security tax holiday,unemployment insurance and the physician fix) [Tripp Umbach]
- The Negative Economic Impact of Cuts to Hospital Funding: Potential Jobs Lost [Tripp Umbach]
- A Call to Action: Creating a Culture of Health [Employee Wellness]
- Workforce 2015: Strategy Trumps Shortage
- 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)
Other Key Topics
- 2013 Hospital Construction Survey
- Engaging Health Care Users: A Framework for Healthy Individuals and Communities
- Are Medicare Patients Getting Sicker? [Chartpack]
- Health Care Spending Growth Slows Dramatically
- Hospitals Demonstrate Commitment to Quality Improvement
- Achieving Team-Based Health Care Delivery
- Advanced Illness Management Strategies
- Diversity & Disparities: a Benchmark Study of U.S. Hospitals
- Health Care Leader Action Guide to Effectively Using HCAHPS
- Hospital Readiness for Population-based Accountable Care
- Managing Population Health: The Role of the Hospital
- Eliminating Health Care Disparities: Implementing the National Call to Action Using Lessons Learned
- Health Care Leader Action Guide to Effectively Using HCAHPS
- Improving perinatal safety: the elimination of elective deliveries before 39 weeks
- Eliminating Health Care Disparities: Implementing the National Call to Action Using Lessons Learned
- 2012 Hospital Construction Survey
- Bringing Behavioral Health into the Care Continuum: Opportunities to Improve Quality, Costs and Outcomes
- Principles and Guidelines for Changes in Hospital Ownership
- Examining the Drivers of Readmissions and Reducing Unnecessary Readmissions for Better Patient Care
- AHA Survey on Drug Shortages
- Building a Culturally Competent Organization: The Quest for Equity in Health Care
- Program Integrity After the Enactment of Health Reform
- From Volume to Value: the Transition to Accountable Care Organizations [McManus]
- The Work Ahead: Activities and Costs to Develop an Accountable Care Organization [McManus]
- Press Release: New Study Finds the Start Up Costs of Establishing an ACO to be Significant
- Opportunities and Challenges for Rural Hospitals in an Era of Health Reform [Chartpack]
- 2011 Hospital Building Report [construction]
- Health Care Leaders Action Guide: Hospital Strategies for Reducing Preventable Mortality
- Maximizing the Value of Post-Acute Care
- Five Barriers to Clinical Integration in Hospitals (and what to do about them)
- Critique of Recent Publications on Provider Market Power [Compass Lexecon]
- Compendium of Federal and State Health Insurance Reform Actions Required by the Affordable Care Act [Polsinelli Shughart]
- Patient-Centered Medical Home: AHA Research Synthesis Report
- Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence: A Compendium of Implementation Guides
- Transition to MS-DRGs: Issues in Measuring Documentation and Coding Change [Moran Company]
- Trends in Case-Mix in the Medicare Population [Deb]
- Accountable Care Organizations: AHA Research Synthesis Report
- 2010 Hospital Building Report Survey [HFM/ASHE]
- Teaching Hospitals: Their Impact on Patients and the Future Health Care Workforce
- 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
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