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Speaking Up for Priorities That Will Help Hospitals Advance Health for Patients and Communities
It is important to use the August recess that begins next week as an opportunity to engage senators and representatives while they are back home. It is critical for federal lawmakers to understand the challenges hospitals and health systems face.
Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Sustaining the Nursing Workforce With Joy Parchment of the University of Central Florida
In this episode, I talk with Joy Parchment, R.N., assistant professor of nursing at the University of Central Florida. As a nurse leader, Joy has worked for health systems and in academia. She most recently served as director of nursing strategy implementation at Orlando Health and currently serves as a board member of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership.
Hospitals are Symbols of Hope, Comfort and Care . . . For All People and Always
Hospitals and health systems — and the women and men who work there — are the heart of health care.
Overcoming Challenges to Ensure Local Access to Care for Patients and Communities
America’s hospitals and health systems are places of healing, hope, comfort and caring. Today, they also face many challenges that jeopardize their ability to always be there ready to care.
Chair File: Planning Today for Tomorrow’s Workforce
We know that prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, demand for health care workers and health care job openings were at record highs. We also know that the pandemic created pressure to quickly ramp up staffing levels and optimize surge capacity, even as the cancellation of non-emergent surgeries caused serious financial challenges for hospitals and health systems.
Many Reasons to Be Thankful Despite Difficult Challenges
For more than 400 years, we have paused each fall to give thanks. We do so during good times and bad because most years bring a mixture of both.
Putting on a Full-court Press to Secure Support for Hospitals and Patients
As Congress convenes for its post-election lame-duck session, we are turning up the pressure to secure additional support for hospitals and the patients and communities they serve. We need to put on a full-court press — and that includes all of us reaching out to our senators and representatives — to urge them to include a number of key priorities in a year-end spending package.
Advancing Health in America Is a Bipartisan Goal We Can All Get Behind
The convening of the 118th Congress this week is a reminder of Washington’s highly-charged political environment.
Providing Healing, Promoting Hope - AHA Celebrates Women Health Care Workers During National Women’s History Month
This year’s theme for National Women’s History Month is Providing Healing, Promoting Hope.
A Path to Equity for Rural Health
Right before the COVID-19 outbreak occurred, AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity (IFDHE) convened more than 65 leaders, trustees and clinicians from rural hospitals across the country at AHA’s annual Rural Conference. We inquired about strategies for health equity in rural communities, as well as these communities’ most common areas of disparity or need.