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Patient Billing Guidelines

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AHA's patient billing guidelines ensure that hospitals treat all patients equitably and with compassion. Learn how hospitals can assist patients with financial assistance and coverage.
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Partnerships, Mergers, and Acquisitions Can Provide Benefits to Certain Hospitals and Communities

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Hospitals and health systems face many pressures to increase the scale of their operations. To help mitigate these challenges, hospitals are considering a range of partnership, merger, and acquisition possibilities to gain new capabilities, realize new efficiencies, and spread costs over a larger organization.
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Ensuring Equity: A Post-Reform Framework to Achieve High Performance Health Care for Vulnerable Populations

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In the United States, there has been a growing health care divide between vulnerable populations defined in this report as people without health insurance, low-income families, and racial and ethni
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CHNAFinder Website FAQs

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The Health Research & Educational Trust is the non-profit affiliate of the American Hospital Association (AHA). The Association for Community Health Improvement is a personal membership group of the AHA. Our mission is to transform health care through research and education. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, we developed CHNAFinder, a central database of CHNAs. CHNAFinder is website with a map-tool that’s accessible for AHA members only.
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A Hospital Leadership Guide to Digital & Social Media Engagement

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Hospital and health care executives have a unique role to play in social media execution.
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American Hospital Association Social Media Policy

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POLICY PURPOSE This policy describes how the American Hospital Association (AHA or Association) makes use of Social Media and how AHA employees manage AHA-branded Social Media accounts.
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Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Principles for United States Action

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Seasonal influenza remains a serious public health concern.
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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care 3rd edition

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The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care 3rd edition 2013.
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Roadmap from AHA, Others for Safely Resuming Elective Surgery as COVID-19 Curve Flattens

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As the COVID-19 surge wanes in different parts of the country, patients’ pent up demand to resume their elective surgeries will be immense. To ensure patients can have elective surgeries as soon as safely possible, the AHA, American College of Surgeons (ACS), American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) developed a roadmap to guide readiness, prioritization and scheduling.