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Perspective: Continuing the Fight to Protect Medicaid and Access to 24/7 Hospital Care for Patients and Communities

The Energy and Commerce Committee, which was instructed to reduce deficits by $880 billion, approved widespread changes to the Medicaid program that, if enacted, would be a devastating blow to the health and well-being of our nation’s most vulnerable citizens and communities.

2025 American Hospital Association Leadership Summit. July 20-22, 2025. Nashville, Tennessee. Learn how to receive free registration by attending the Hosted Buyer Forum.

Registration now open! AHA Leadership Summit — July 20-22, 2025.

Join a diverse community of senior hospital and health system leaders and clinicians, trustees and next-generation health leaders for three days of innovative insights, inspiring ideas and disruptive solutions. Early-bird registration ends June 6, 2025.

Urge Your Members of Congress to Protect Medicaid and Other Crucial Programs

Please contact your lawmakers today and urge them to reject harmful funding cuts to Medicaid and other health care programs. Explain how cuts to Medicaid and other programs would reduce access to care and services for their constituents. AHA resources can assist your advocacy efforts.

39th Annual AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference. February 8-11, 2026. San Antonio, Texas. JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country.

2026 AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference

Call for Speakers

We are now accepting speaking proposals featuring rural hospital executives, clinical leaders and trustees as presenters. The proposal deadline is Friday, June 6. 2025.

3 Must-Know Cyber and Risk Realities in 2025

In his latest Cyber & Risk Intel blog, AHA National Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk John Riggi looks at the cyber and physical threats that health care will face in 2025. He also explores health care organizations’ advancements in mitigating those threats as they’ve learned how to better prepare to maintain clinical continuity and business resiliency during prolonged outages.

Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Cybersecurity in Health Care with John Riggi, AHA’s National Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk

Tina Freese Decker and John Riggi discuss cybersecurity and physical threats, which are significant enterprise risks for health care, regardless of size or location. Every hospital, physician group and medical center is at risk — and this risk puts the people served at risk.

Building and Implementing an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan for Health Care

Staring at unlimited AI use cases, hospitals and health systems need effective action plans for future health care delivery. The AHA Center for Health Innovation produced this Market Insights report for executives of hospitals and health systems to guide them as they journey into the use of AI and AI-powered technologies.

Insights to Guide Your Workforce Strategies: New 2025 AHA Health Care Workforce Scan

The 2025 AHA Health Care Workforce Scan offers trends, expert insights and practical recommendations to help hospitals and health systems retain and attract staff while supporting their well-being and resiliency.

New Analysis Shows Hospitals Improving Performance on Key Patient Safety Measures Surpassing Pre-pandemic Levels

New Report Shows Hospital Patient Safety Performance Improving

The AHA today released a new report showing that hospital and health system performance on key patient safety and quality measures was better in the first quarter of 2024 than it was right before the COVID-19 pandemic and that hospitals made these improvements while caring for more complex patients with more significant health care needs.