Press Releases

View all of the press releases for the media on health care issues impacting hospitals and health systems.

Hospitals across America are pursuing ways to make care more affordable by better coordinating care, reducing red tape and providing the right care at the right time in the right setting.
Todays data prove unequivocally that the nations hospitals are hard at work adopting electronic health records (EHRs).
Today's hospital bill is a symptom of a broken payment system. Nationally, hospitals deal with over 1,300 insurers, each having different plans, all with multiple and often unique requirements for hospital bills.
The AHA applauds the renomination of Marilyn Tavenner to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Today's proposed rule is an important step forward in further reducing burdensome requirements to hospitals. Many of these changes will be particularly welcomed by small and rural hospitals.
Lynn C. Jones, president, Christiana Care Home Health & Community Services, Inc. and senior vice president, post-acute care services, Christiana Care Health System of Wilmington, Del., is the 2013 chairman of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Long-Term Care and…
The nation's hospitals annually employ 5.5 million people and create two trillion dollars in economic activity, yet some in Congress continue to threaten access to hospital services.
In honor of its broad-based efforts to improve the lives of the most vulnerable members of its community, St. Joseph's/Candler Health System in Savannah, Ga. is the recipient of the 2012 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service, one of the most esteemed community service honors in…
Paul Summergrad, Dr. Frances S. Arkin Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, is the 2013 chair of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section Council for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse…
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that Ann Bergmann will chair the AHA's 2013 Committee on Volunteers.