Workforce

The American Hospital Association offers these resources for addressing health care workforce issues for leaders of hospitals and health systems.

The AHA asks that as the House begins drafting the FY 2027 appropriations bill, it funds health care programs that have proven successful in improving access to quality health care for patients and communities across America.
“This was never about technology,” said Muhammad Siddiqui. That sounds like a strange way to describe the project that made Reid Health one of the finalists for the 2026 AHA Rural Hospital Excellence in Innovation Award.
Webinar aligning Just Culture, Psychological Safety and HRO with TeamSTEPPS to strengthen patient safety, workforce well-being and reliable care.
What does it take to turn a nursing shortage into a workforce pipeline?
In this conversation, Denzil Ross, president of Indiana University Health South Region, and Erik Coyne, chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College–Bloomington, discuss how the organizations' partnership is using philanthropic investment to broaden nursing education for aspiring nurses.
President Trump April 16 announced that Erica Schwartz, M.D., has been nominated for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The AHA will host a webinar April 16 at 1 p.m. ET featuring leaders from CHRISTUS Health and The Urology Group to share how nurse-first triage and smarter demand management reduce burnout, preserve clinical capacity and strengthen performance across care teams and care delivery.
Join us for a high-level executive briefing on the Human Flourishing Framework. We will explore the Value on Investment (VOI) of a flourishing workforce. Drawing on the UnityPoint Clinic case study, we will demonstrate how organizations can evolve from managing burnout to creating a strategic…
Contra Costa County leaders partnered with Kaiser Permanente and Contra Costa Heath to launch the “Right Care, Right Way” pilot campaign.
Flu and COVID-19 vaccination rates among all health care workers for the 2024-25 respiratory virus season was 76.3% and 40.2%, respectively, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released April 2.