AHA Press Releases

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 service honors in healthcare.

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 physician fix), passed by the House, are implemented.

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.

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.

America's hospitals are very disappointed with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) recommendations today regarding changes in Medicare payment to hospitals.

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 governance.

The Coalition to Protect America's Health Care tomorrow will launch on December 14, 2011, a national print campaign to urge Congress not to cut billions of dollars from hospital care to pay for a physician payment fix.

The AHA awarded the Carolyn Boone Lewis Living the Vision award to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) in Anchorage for its work to improve the health of Alaska Natives and American Indians through actions that go beyond traditional hospital care.

The American Hospital Association strongly supports fixing Medicare's flawed physician-payment system but not by further cutting resources for hospital services that seniors depend on. We are deeply disappointed in the plan submitted by House Republicans today that would cut more than $17 billion in payment for hospital care.

A new report documents sustained declines in patients discharged from inpatient rehabilitation hospitals as well as an increase in higher acuity patients following the implementation of several major policy changes in recent years.

America's hospitals welcome today's announcement that HHS intends to delay the start of Stage 2 meaningful use.

The AHA commends Don Berwick's commitment and passion to improving health care. We appreciate his openness to always being willing to listen to the hospital field's perspective on how to deliver better care to patients.

The American Hospital Association has signed on as a partner to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Workplace Partnership for Life campaign, a donor registration campaign.

Sequestration means that arbitrary reductions in resources for patient care under Medicare will now be set to take effect under the law for the remainder of the decade.

Alan D. Aviles, president and chief executive officer of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), today was named to the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association (AHA).

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.