Press Releases
View all of the American Hospital Association (AHA) press releases for the media on health care issues impacting hospitals and health systems.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 8, 2018) - Steven J. Corwin, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of NewYork-Presbyterian, is the 2018 council chairman of the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) constituency section for health care systems. The 21-member council represents AHA’s 250 health…
WASHINGTON (January 9, 2018) – The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that David B. Hyman, DDS, will be chair for the AHA's 2018 Committee on Governance (COG). The COG is a specialty committee of the AHA Board of Trustees. The committee is responsible for providing…
WASHINGTON (January 10, 2018) – Today, the American Hospital Association (AHA) announced that Mary Lou Mastro, MS, RN, FACHE, System CEO of Edward-Elmhurst Health in Naperville, Illinois, is the 2018 Council chair of the AHA’s Constituency Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services.…
WASHINGTON (January 12, 2018) – Today, the American Hospital Association (AHA) announced that Joan Coffman, President and CEO of HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital in Decatur, Illinois, will lead the AHA’s Section for Small or Rural Hospitals as chair of its 19-member council for 2018. The section is a…
WASHINGTON (January 16, 2018) – Today, the American Hospital Association (AHA) announced that Kathleen Becker, JD, FACHE, President, SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital in St. Louis will lead the AHA’s Section for Metropolitan Hospitals as chair of its 26-member council for 2018. The section…
WASHINGTON (January 11, 2018) – Today, the American Hospital Association (AHA) announced that Charlotte Ipsan, chief administrative officer of Norton Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Ky., is the 2018 chair of the AHA’s Section for Maternal and Child Health Council.The council is…
WASHINGTON, DC (December 18, 2017) – Bryan Slaba, CEO of Wagner Community Memorial Hospital - Avera in Wagner, S.D., is the 2017 recipient of the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Rural Hospital Leadership Award. The award recognizes small or rural hospital chief executives and administrators…
The conference report released today has mixed results for the hospitals and health systems we represent and the patients we are privileged to care for.
The AHA is pleased that the Tax Cuts and Job Acts of 2017 Senate bill did not eliminate the tax-exemption for private-activity bonds for not-for-profit hospitals, protecting hospitals' and health systems' access to this vital source of low-cost capital.