AHA Stat Blog

A series of tariffs recently implemented could have significant implications for health care.

Three key House committees — Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Agriculture — after long debates and discussions this week advanced their portions of a massive reconciliation bill aimed at realizing President Trump’s legislative agenda.

One of our best strategies to address the unique behavioral health challenges and demands of pregnant women and new mothers is recognizing that mental health is a central element to physical health, meaning we need to continually treat the whole person in our settings to the best of our abilities.

After a week’s delay to try to build consensus among Republicans — due in large part to concerns we have been raising about Medicaid cuts —  the House Energy & Commerce Committee could begin next week drafting its portion of the budget reconciliation bill as part of President Trump’s agenda to advance tax cuts that disproportionately benefit high income individuals.

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.

In today’s rapidly evolving health care landscape — where patient outcomes and safety are non-negotiable top priorities — health systems and their staff are under constant pressure to balance competing demands.

I welcomed John Riggi, AHA’s National Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk, to our Leadership Dialogue to have a conversation about planning for and navigating cyber and physical threats.

We need to talk about protecting access to care by rejecting cuts to Medicaid, additional so-called site-neutral payment policies and harmful changes to the 340B program.

May 4-6, more than 1,000 hospital and health system leaders from across the country will arrive in Washington, D.C., for the 2025 AHA Annual Membership Meeting.

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Congressional lawmakers are heading home for a two-week district work period after both the Senate and House passed a revised budget resolution for fiscal year 2025.

America’s hospitals and health systems are places of healing, hope and health.

Paragon Health Institute continues their series of misguided and harmful characterizations of Medicaid financing and provider payment.

In this Leadership Dialogue, I’m joined by Lori Wightman, R.N., CEO of Bothwell Regional Health Center, in Sedalia, Mo. Lori and I discuss working in a “family atmosphere” unique to a rural hospital and navigating the same pressures that face urban hospitals.

The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Association for Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) brought together a small group composed of hospital and health system leaders, device manufacturers and policy leaders to explore how to make devices safer by design.

Congress is back in Washington, D.C., for a critical three-week stretch in which House and Senate Republicans are seeking to strike a compromise on a common budget resolution that would allow them

For health care organizations that care for the 70 million Medicaid patients in the U.S., provider taxes are a life vest that keep state Medicaid programs afloat and allow them to continue providing critical health care services for their communities.

America’s hospitals and health systems are incubators of innovation, ideas and medical progress as they are constantly striving to improve patient care and advance health.

This week marks five years since President Trump declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency and related lockdowns across the globe turned the world we knew upside down.

Leading a rural hospital can feel like you are battling alone, but together with a unified voice we can advocate for what our rural patients need.