Press Releases
View all of the press releases for the media on health care issues impacting hospitals and health systems.
James Dickson Receives AHA's Shirley Ann Munroe Leadership Award Presee Release.
AHA Statement on Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing Provisions in Final Outpatient Prospective Payment Rule.
AHA's Statement on President Obama's Executive Order on Drug Shortages.
The Coalition to Protect America's Health Care today launched a national advertising campaign to urge Congress not to cut Medicare funding for hospital care.
Today's rules represent the direction in which the hospital field is moving toward better coordinated patient care across care settings. We commend CMS for listening to the concerns of America's hospitals.
We applaud CMS for addressing concerns heard from America's hospitals. The proposed new conditions of participation better recognize how care is delivered today. They eliminate unnecessary paperwork, allowing nurses more time at the bedside.
Statement on President Obama's Debt Reduction Proposal to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.
A new analysis by Tripp Umbach, a firm specializing in conducting economic impact studies, finds that 194,000 jobs could be lost if the Joint Select Committee fails to come to a compromise on spending cuts and a sequestration occurs.
Hospitals across the nation are responding to patient demand and integrating complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services with the conventional services they normally provide, according to the results of a new survey.
The Coalition to Protect America's Health Care launched a national advertising campaign to educate Congress about the implications of further federal funding cuts to hospitals.