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Blogs from AHA leaders and members on the latest health care issues.
Hospitals of all types provide unparalleled benefits to their communities. Yet, the author of a recent op-ed (Why Are Nonprofit Hospitals Focused More on Dollars Than Patients?) ignores these benefits in an unconvincing effort to claim hospitals are not living up to their mission.
In a new location for 2024, the 37th Annual AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, will be held Feb. 11-14 in Orlando, Fla. The conference brings together senior executives, physician leaders, trustees and nurse executives from the nation's leading rural hospitals and health systems to share…
Learn why it's reckless and wrong to allege that hospitals are deliberately squeezing their charity care spending to maintain financial viability.
AHA and its Institute for Diversity and Health Equity at the 38th National Association of Health Services Executives (N.A.H.S.E.) Annual Education Conference in Atlanta hosted Understanding Bias in Black Maternal Health, which included a screening of “Toxic: A Black Woman’s Story.”
For more than a decade, the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act, more commonly known as the “Stark Law,” has protected the Medicare program from unfettered growth in physician-owned facilities and further expanding their practices of selecting the healthiest and most profitable patients, driving up…
Time and time again, it’s been proven that non-profit hospitals more than earn their tax-exempt status by providing benefits determined to best serve each community.
Today we’re proud to share some recent AHA resources surrounding behavioral health.
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal wants you to believe that many of our nation’s emergency departments are incapable of caring for children.
Emerging research has confirmed what hospitals and health systems have been saying again and again and again – that 2022 was among the most financially challenging year the hospital field has experienced, and that recovery remains challenging.
A recent paper funded by the objective-sounding organization the “National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation” adds to the growing list of commercial health insurer-backed, bias-riddled research aimed at diverting attention away from that industry’s troubling practices. This…