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Join senior hospital and health system leaders and clinicians, trustees, and next-generation health leaders who are reimagining health care through high-level, transformational strategies and innovative approaches to deliver better care and greater value, ensure financial stability, enhance public trust and confidence, address workforce challenges and improve the health care consumer experience.

Every year, the AHA presents the Circle of Life Award to up to three palliative and end-of-life care programs that demonstrate effective, patient-centered, timely, safe, efficient and equitable care to patients with serious illness. The 2023 application period is open now until May 31.

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.

Malware and ransomware attacks as well as data breaches increasingly are putting care delivery, patients’ protected health information and safety at risk. John Riggi talks solutions with Darren Lacey, Chief Information Security Officer, Johns Hopkins University/Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Salwa Rafee, Global Managing Director, Healthcare Security, Accenture.

There were many compelling moments at the 2022 AHA Annual Membership Meeting. Explore the highlights and experience many of the recorded session videos from the conference.

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

Organizations providing palliative or end-of-life care are encouraged to apply for the 2023 awards using an updated, shorter application. Part 1 is due May 31.

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.