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America Needs Strong Hospitals to Support Healthy and Thriving Communities

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.
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Delivering Safe, Quality Care to Patients Is the Top Priority for Hospitals and Health Systems

The 2025 AHA Leadership Summit wrapped up on July 22, and as always, it was energizing and inspiring to connect with so many talented and dedicated people whose passion and vision for health care promise great things for the future.
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Leadership, Vision and Innovation Continue to Drive U.S. Health Care

American health care is blessed with motivated clinicians, care teams and hospital and health system leaders who strive to push the field forward, knowing that there is always new knowledge to be gained, new boundaries to explore and new ways to improve the patient care experience.
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Integrating Mental and Physical Health to Better Support Patients and Communities

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and it is a time to raise awareness of and reduce the stigma surrounding behavioral health issues. It’s also a time to recognize how mental illness and addiction can affect all of us — patients, providers, families and our society at large.
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Hospitals are Always There for Patients and Communities, Including in Times of Disasters and Emergencies

When a natural disaster or emergency strikes, where is one of the first places people turn to? Their local hospital.
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Taking the Lead in Developing the Health Care Leaders of Tomorrow

The AHA Next Generation Leaders Fellowship focuses on developing leaders and empowering them to bring about real and lasting change in the hospitals and health systems in which they serve, as well as our field overall.
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Providing Tools to Help Hospital and Health System Leaders Shape Our Future

Hospital and health system leaders work hard to ensure their organizations can deliver high-quality care, comply with evolving regulations, embrace technological innovation and adapt to a rapidly changing landscape — all at the same time.
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Helping Tomorrow’s Health Care Leaders Chart a Brighter Future

Throughout history, a huge driver of human progress has been the story of talented young minds looking at age-old problems and challenges through a fresh new lens. In today's world, this is especially true of health care, which continues to rapidly evolve as we strive to deliver superb patient care while keeping pace with changing technologies, developing care models, evolving regulations and financial challenges. Fortunately, our field is blessed with many outstanding leaders who are deftly navigating the complex health care environment and guiding their organizations to a bright future.
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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.
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Developing the Next Generation of Health Care Leaders

The late American economist and author Peter Drucker observed that "management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."