American Hospital Association

National Hospital Week is an opportunity to highlight our hospitals, health systems and health care workers and the innovative ways they are supporting and connected to their community. We invite health care workers and community members to participate in National Hospital Week through the AHA's resources and toolkit.

We are continuing our full court press to make the case to lawmakers that enacting significant cuts to Medicaid would jeopardize access to care for the more than 72 million people who rely on the program and impact access to care for everyone, including limiting the 24/7 care and services hospitals provide.

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.

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.

The Foster G. McGaw Prize celebrates organizations that improve health through community investments and co-designed tactics and programs. If your organization is addressing societal factors that influence health, increasing access to care and driving sustainable improvements, apply for the 2026 Prize. Applications are due May 6.

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.

Rural hospitals are especially susceptible to the “ransomware blast radius” — whereby the threat to patient safety cascades from the hospital to every hospital, clinic and emergency department in the region. John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk, outlines why it is vital to protect rural hospitals from today’s ever-escalating cyberattacks.

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.

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.