A new AHA video features hospital and health system leaders from across the country sharing how severe financial pressures are jeopardizing access to care and services for patients in their communities. Visit AHA’s Pressure Points webpage for more information and resources about the challenges facing the hospital field. The AHA this week urged lawmakers to prioritize certain actions to help hospitals and health systems address rising costs, workforce challenges and diminished Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements.

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An AHA blog published March 24 responds to a recent KFF brief on the role of hospital care in recent health care spending growth. It explains why hospital…
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Recent analyses of national health spending have again placed hospitals at the center of the affordability debate. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation brief…
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From birth to death, from critical injuries to elective surgeries, from crisis and disaster to community food banks and health improvement initiatives —…
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America’s hospitals and health systems are deeply committed to providing high-quality, accessible and affordable care, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack March…
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A hospital patient from the 1990s would likely marvel at the pace of progress in health care just a generation later. America’s hospitals and health systems…
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The AHA March 11 released the latest edition of its annual Costs of Caring report, highlighting how hospitals and health systems continue to face increases in…