Member Resource: Building and Maintaining Public Trust and Confidence
Share these new resources with your communications and leadership teams.
Hospitals Leading the Way to a Healthier America
Hospitals have always been at the heart of community health empowering healthier, happier lives for all.
AHA Launches New Multimedia Advertising Campaign to Promote Hospitals
The campaign includes a commercial that will run on national, cable, and digital TV and digital advertising.
New Resources Spotlight Crucial Role of Rural Hospitals and Health Systems
The AHA released new resources to help rural hospitals and health systems share their stories and highlight the vital role they play in their communities.
Creative repurposing saves heart during double-lung transplant
Old technology — applied in new and novel ways — can still be a lifesaver.
Telling the Hospital Story
American hospitals empower people to live healthier, happier lives in addition to being ready to care 24/7.
Hope. Healing. Health.
In communities everywhere, hope, health and healing are found within the walls of your local hospital. It’s where compassion meets medicine, and where lives are mended by people who care.
▷ MAKING COMMUNITIES HEALTHY
Hospitals are central to healthy communities, offering free preventive care, education and more to help people stay healthy. Discover how hospitals support and promote health:
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▷ AHA MEMBERS – FIND TOOLS TO TELL YOUR HOSPITAL STORY
Find customizable content and key AHA advisories and resources that illustrate the crucial role hospitals and health systems play in their communities.
▷ TELL YOUR STORY
Share your stories so AHA can elevate the work you do. Sign up via this form to join AHA’s efforts through op-eds, audio news releases and other AHA-supported media opportunities.
IN THE NEWS
- Setting the Record Straight
- In case you missed it: An in-depth ProPublica article, “Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay,” highlighting how Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana approved mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay a hospital’s full bills, and for some claims, it paid nothing.
- Multimedia Resources For Use
- AHA's Forever Grateful campaign shows gratitude for health care workers: Download the social media toolkit that includes posts and graphics expressing support and appreciation for all health care workers
- Find other resources in a new communications hub designed to support your efforts in telling the hospital story through digital and other media
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SIGHT AND SOUND 
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