AHA Stat Blog

Health care is taking care of people and depends on people, writes Catherine Jacobson, president and CEO of Milwaukee-based Froedtert Health and chair of AHA’s Task Force on the Changing Workforce. Read more about the ideas, innovations and key takeaways from the group’s first meeting.

Hospitals and health systems investing in housing helps control costs while also ensuring that discharged patients have a safe and clean place to sleep each night, writes Jay Bhatt, D.O., AHA senior vice president and chief medical officer.

Hospitals and health systems are improving health outcomes by tackling disparities in their communities, write Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative, and Duane Reynolds, president and CEO of AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity.

Robyn Begley, AHA senior vice president and chief nursing officer and CEO of its American Organization for Nursing Leadership, spotlights hospital and health system efforts to improve outcomes for mothers and babies and previews AHA’s Executive Forum on accelerating the momentum.

Your voice matters. Make sure they know where you — and your community — stand. 

Artificial intelligence can empower employees, not take their jobs, writes Lindsey Dunn Burgstahler, vice president of programming and market intelligence at the AHA Center for Health Innovation.

In this AHA Stat Blog, Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative, shares how The Value Initiative has progressed in its first two years and announces its new effort to encourage hospitals and health systems to take their work from paper to action.

Smarter, more efficient, more convenient. These goals are shaping transformation at hospitals and health systems throughout the country.

Catherine Carruth, executive director at AHA’s American Society for Health Care Human Resources Administration, and Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of AHA’s Physician Alliance, share six key takeaways from HR thought leaders.

Hospitals and health systems can use data and metrics to guide their strategies on social needs and social determinants, writes Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative.

Tomorrow’s health care leaders can get a big boost from a new AHA program designed to develop and accelerate their ability to successfully lead America’s hospitals and health systems into the next decade and beyond.

The latest report from AIR340B continues to misrepresent a program with a more than 25-year history of helping hospitals stretch scarce financial resources to expand and improve access to lifesaving prescription drugs and comprehensive health services for the many patients served by participating hospitals. 

Thank you for everything you do — throughout the entire year — to advance health in America.

Cedars-Sinai President and CEO Tom Priselac talks with Diane Meier, M.D., director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, about building a culture of goal-concordant care for seriously ill patients.

Value was mentioned in nearly every conversation I joined.

Preserving rural health and advancing health in America go hand-in-hand.

We’re proposing that CMS standardize prior authorization requirements and processes and increase its oversight of the health plans the agency regulates, including Medicare Advantage plans.

In this AHA blog, Lindsey Dunn Burgstahler, vice president of programming and market intelligence at the AHA Center for Health Innovation, discusses key competencies of transformative heath care leaders and introduces the new AHA Next Generation Leaders Fellowship program.

Many hospitals and health systems are reducing costs and improving health outcomes by addressing disparities head on, write Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative, and Duane Reynolds, president and CEO of AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity.

Our nation’s freedom is safeguarded by our brave women and men in uniform, who willingly risk their lives for love of country and ask nothing in return except for the chance, when the time comes, to successfully return to civilian life.