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Letter/Comment
Public

AHA Supports Bipartisan Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act

The American Hospital Association (AHA) expresses support for legislation, H.R. 3890, the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025. This bipartisan bill would add 14,000 Medicare-funded residency positions over seven years, thereby helping to alleviate ongoing physician shortages that threaten patients’ access to care.
Content
Public

"The Case for Change": Addressing New York’s Health Care Challenges

Key findings from a report titled "The Case for Change" have identified four drivers of some of the most pressing challenges facing health care in New York state.
Testimony
Public

AHA Statement to House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health for Hearing March 11, 2025

Post-acute care is provided to patients who have been discharged from an acute-care hospital but still require services such as close medical supervision, nursing care, therapies and other support.
Guides/Reports

AHA Health Care Workforce Scan

The AHA Health Care Workforce Scan offers trends, expert insights and bold new approaches to guide your workforce strategies and initiatives.
Case Studies

Adventist Health Bakersfield | California

Adventist Health Bakersfield is a 254-bed hospital committed to delivering exceptional health care for a service area population of almost 800,000 people. This includes a focus on serving lower-income residents and those who have been historically marginalized.
AHA Knowledge Exchange

Strategies for Effective Contingent Nurse Workforce Management

Hospitals are strategically planning workforce needs and changing the culture of how contingent nurse staff are received and integrated into teams.
News

America Needs Strong Hospitals to Foster Healthy and Thriving Communities

Hospitals and health systems are facing many significant challenges, including historic workforce shortages, soaring costs of providing care, cracks in the supply chain, severe underpayment by Medicare and Medicaid, and overwhelming regulatory and administrative burdens, just to name a few. These challenges are jeopardizing access to care and services for patients and communities.
Sponsored Executive Dialogues
Member

Tackling the Surgical Backlog

Strategies to address surgical backlog and use anesthesiologists in leadership positions to optimize perioperative performance and OR efficiency.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Workforce Shortages and Violence Are Rising Concerns in State of Nursing Poll

Nearly four out of five nurses say they plan to remain in the field until retirement, according to the recently released State of U.S. Nursing Report 2024 from the health care career marketplace company Incredible Health. The fifth annual report, based on the firm’s review of its proprietary data of 1 million nurses and a survey of 3,300 RNs, also found that mental health among nurses is improving.
Guides/Reports
Member

Creative Staffing Models | Strengthening the Health Care Workforce

Health care organizations experiment and pilot changes that can help support their current workforce in providing needed care in their communities.