“Emerging research has confirmed what hospitals and health systems have been saying again and again and again — that 2022 was among the most financially challenging years the hospital field has experienced, and that recovery remains challenging,” writes Ben Finder, AHA’s director of policy research and analysis. READ MORE 

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