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The AHA is urging all members to engage with their elected officials during the August recess — and through the remainder of the year — and make important points about the financial struggles that jeopardize access to care.

Health care leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs and others recently met in San Diego to explore opportunities to leverage their data and insights, address workforce resiliency, venture capital investing, skill sets needed for next-generation leaders and more. Here’s what had attendees buzzing.

A behind-the-scenes look at the ongoing pandemic as hospitals continued to face new challenges and still maintain standards of care.

Commercial insurance costs are increasing at an unsustainable rate while many plan policies create dangerous delays in care, contribute to clinician burnout and significantly drive-up administrative costs for the health care system.

Section 2: Data and Technology to Support the Workforce Now Available

The second section focuses on data and analytics and on technological supports. AHA will release the final chapters on creative staffing models in the coming months.

Rural hospital leadership teams who have guided their hospital and community through transformational change are encouraged to apply. Applications are due Aug. 31, 2022.

This playbook is designed to guide rural hospital leaders and board members around strategic thinking and local problem solving related to the COVID-19 vaccine and related COVID-19 response, as we as a country attempt to move past the pandemic.

Rising inflation and dramatic growth in expenses for workforce, drugs, medical supplies and equipment continue to strain hospitals more than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Health Equity Roadmap is a framework to help hospitals and health care systems chart their own paths toward transformation to advance equity. The AHA invites members to take the Health Equity Transformation Assessment to begin their journey for systems change.

The 2022 Advocacy Agenda is a forward-looking document designed to positively influence the public policy environment for patients, communities and the health care field.