Press Releases
View all of the press releases for the media on health care issues impacting hospitals and health systems.
The Coalition to Protect America's Health Care today launched a national advertising campaign to urge Congress not to cut Medicare and Medicaid funding for hospital care.
In honor of its broad-based efforts to improve the lives of the most vulnerable members of its community, Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center (MAHHC) in Windsor, Vt., is the recipient of the 2011 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service, one of the most esteemed community…
An updated analysis by Tripp Umbach, a firm specializing in conducting economic impact studies, finds that an additional 83,000 jobs could be lost if the Medicare cuts to hospital care included in H.R. 3630 (legislation extending the Social Security tax holiday, unemployment insurance and the…
Fred Rothstein, M.D., president of University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, will lead the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Metropolitan Hospitals as chair of its 24-member governing council for 2012.
Staci Covey, president of Guthrie's Troy Community Hospital in Troy, Pa., will lead the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Small or Rural Hospitals in 2012.
America's hospitals are very disappointed with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) recommendations today regarding changes in Medicare payment to hospitals.
Patricia A. Warner, executive director of the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospitals in Ann Arbor, Mich. is the 2012 chair of the American Hospital Association's Section for Maternal and Child Health.
Patricia Ostaszewski, chief executive officer (CEO), HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Toms River, N.J. is the 2012 chair of the American Hospital Associations (AHA) Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that Kimberly McNally will be chair and Katherine Keene, will be chair-elect for the AHA's 2012 Committee on Governance (COG).
Warner L. Thomas, president and COO, Ochsner Health System in New Orleans is the 2012 chair of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Health Care Systems, a constituency section representing health systems across the country that provide guidance in AHA's policy development and…