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Report: Hospitals and health systems squeezed by persistent economic challenges
The AHA April 30 released a report highlighting how hospitals and health systems continue to experience significant financial headwinds that can challenge their ability to provide care to their patients and communities.
How an Ohio Children’s Hospital Built Trust, Fulfilled Promises — and Improved Housing and Health in Its Communities
Nationwide Children’s Hospital is now implementing what we believe is a truly neighborhood-driven and co-designed community investment initiative in Columbus, Ohio.
AHA urges congressional support of health care programs in FY 2025 appropriations
AHA urged leaders of the Senate and House Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education to give favorable funding consideration in fiscal year 2025 to health care programs shown to improve access to quality health care for patients and communities.
AHA Board Chair-elect delivers remarks at health care investor conference
AHA Board Chair-elect Tina Freese Decker, CEO of Michigan-based Corewell Health, May 21 addressed more than 400 hospital and health system leaders and investors at the 2024 Not-for-Profit Health Care Investor Conference in New York City.
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.
RAND 5.0 – The Health Policy Equivalent of Groundhog Day
The RAND Corporation recently released the fifth iteration of its biannual hospital price report. The AHA highlights the significant flaws in this latest iteration.
Article Misleads on Hospitals’ Charity Care Spending
Learn why it's reckless and wrong to allege that hospitals are deliberately squeezing their charity care spending to maintain financial viability.
Hospital Financial Health: A Rocky Recovery
Emerging research has confirmed what hospitals and health systems have been saying again and again and again – that 2022 was among the most financially challenging year the hospital field has experienced, and that recovery remains challenging.
AHA blog pushes back on report on nonprofit hospitals
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is supposedly committed to being “an authoritative voice for fiscal responsibility,” which is why it’s so “disappointing that they would propose something so irresponsible in a new report — repealing nonprofit hospitals’ tax exemption,” writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack in an AHA blog.
What a Recent Health Affairs Piece Gets Wrong about Hospital Finances and Charity Care
A recently published article in Health Affairs on hospital finances and financial assistance uses a flawed, debunked methodology to justify preconceived conclusions about how hospitals manage their finances.