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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.
AHA Associate Podcast Series | Accumen
In this episode, Kathleen Wessel, VP of Business Management and Operations at the AHA, speaks with Jeff Myers, Vice President of Consulting at Accumen, and Melissa Butterworth, President of Laboratory Acquisitions & Mergers at Advanced Strategic Partners, a partner of Accumen. Laboratories are often an underappreciated but essential aspect of many health systems in delivering quality patient care. Join them as they discuss the intricacies of lab optimization, process improvement, financial sustainability, and successful partnerships - all with the ultimate goal of providing better care for patients.
Supercharging Our Efforts to Strengthen America’s Health Care
The Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care, which for 24 years has fought to protect access to high-quality care for all Americans, will now be known as the Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare: Protecting 24/7 Care.
Affordability Advocacy Agenda
Our shared focus with Congress and Administration is on providing relief from the pandemic, ensuring a smooth recovery, and rebuilding a better health care system for the future. The American Hospital Association continues to incorporate principles that promote improved affordability, value, and equity into our policy and advocacy activities.
Key Messages on Consolidation
The financial health of the hospital field has been shaken during the pandemic. Health systems have demonstrated benefits. Mergers expand the capacity of smaller and rural hospitals. A focus on hospital consolidation ignores larger market trends. The cost of providing care continues to increase. Critics of mergers too often rely on incomplete evidence. Commercial insurers do not always pass on savings from lower hospital prices.
Value of Health Systems Shown Clearly During the Pandemic
As our nation emerges slowly from the devastating effects of the pandemic, the value of America’s hospitals and health systems—and t
Effective Governance of Health Systems
Governing a health system is different than governing a stand-alone hospital. All health system boards oversee and attempt to integrate different businesses regardless of the type of system they govern.
Essential Skills for Todays CEO
The board is responsible for setting the hospital or health system’s mission and vision, and for engaging leaders and staff in working toward that vision.
2021 Cost of Caring
Hospitals and health systems work hard every day to make care more cost-effective and efficient for their patients, at the same time that they are caring for the nation’s most complex and resource-intensive patients. This has been especially true during the COVID-19 pandemic as hospitals and health systems have provided essential services and saved lives, while also facing unprecedented financial and operational challenges.
What it Takes to Be the New CEO
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With hospitals moving beyond their four walls to establish ambulatory care facilities, take on financial risk and pr