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AHA Annual Membership Meeting 2025 Advocacy Messages Card
America’s hospitals and health systems deliver healing, hope and health to patients in every community across America.
AHA 2025 Advocacy Agenda
Explore the AHA's 2024 Advocacy Agenda focusing on healthcare policy and advocacy priorities. Download the PDF for detailed information.
Federal Public Policy and Legislative Solutions for Improving Maternal Health Sept. 2024
At the federal level, several legislative initiatives specific to maternal mortality have been enacted. Several other initiatives have been introduced in Congress the last year.
Critical Health Care Priorities for Hospitals and Health Systems Included in Year-end Legislative Package
The House of Representatives today filed the Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, a bill to fund the government through March 14, 2025, provide disaster relief and address a number of provisions that affect hospitals and health systems, including many the AHA strongly advocated for throughout the year.
Real Affordability Solutions from the Front Lines of Caring
Hospitals and health systems are where the most complex care is provided for ill and injured patients. Yet spending on inpatient and outpatient care has grown more slowly than spending on other health services. Hospitals and health systems have worked hard to provide the best value to patients and their families. Read more below.
Fact Sheet: Workplace Violence and Intimidation, and the Need for a Federal Legislative Response
For the past several years, the health care field has experienced a sharp increase in workplace
violence. The COVID-19 pandemic placed significant stress on the entire health care system, and
in some situations, patients, visitors and family members have attacked health care staff and
jeopardized our workforce’s ability to provide care.
Appropriations Committees Release Spending Bills and Health Extenders Package
The House and Senate Appropriations Committees March 3 released text of six appropriations bills that would fund various agencies of the federal government through the end of the current fiscal year (FY).
Fact Sheet: Federal Investment in Behavioral Health Infrastructure Needed to Address Mounting Crisis
The AHA urges Congress and the Biden Administration to prioritize funding for the infrastructure that supports the behavioral health needs of the country. These investments will not only help to stymie the wave of unmet demand for behavioral health services that has been growing for decades, but also provide the basis for better overall physical health for Americans.
AHA Letter to Senate Subcommittee Leadership on Appropriations Priorities for FY 2025
AHA Senate letter regarding funding for health care programs for fiscal year (FY) 2025.
AHA Letter to House Subcommittee Leadership on Appropriations Priorities for FY 2025
AHA letter to the House leadership on funding for health care programs for fiscal year (FY) 2025.