The 2026 AHA Annual Meeting began today with Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health and 2025 AHA board chair, who discussed the need for leaders to approach health care with skill and compassion and to share patient stories with policymakers as they make critical decisions that…
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Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., vice chair of the Republican Conference and member of the Senate Finance Committee and its Subcommittee on Health Care, joined Denise Webber, president and CEO of Stillwater Medical Center, for a conversation on building a health care workforce in rural areas,…
Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Ohio, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its Subcommittee on Health, spoke with Mike Abrams, president and CEO of the Ohio Hospital Association, about Landsman’s efforts in Congress to address issues currently facing the health care field. He spoke on the…
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Congress must set aside partisanship to address urgent health care issues, including affordability and access to care.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, in conversation with Immediate Past President of the Maine Hospital Association Steven Michaud, emphasized her longtime support of hospitals and…
FBI Co-deputy Director Andrew Bailey discussed a rise in cyber and physical threats impacting health care. He discussed health care as the top critical infrastructure sector cybercrime target in 2025, how ransomware attacks have increased in recent years and how they have largely been conducted by…
Jim VandeHei, CEO of Axios; Marc Boom, M.D., AHA board chair and president and CEO of Houston Methodist; Anne Klibanski, M.D., president and CEO of Mass General Brigham; Jonathan Perlin, M.D., president and CEO of Joint Commission; and Ladd Wiley, senior vice president of global corporate affairs,…
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, M.D., and CMS Deputy Administrator and Director of Medicaid and CHIP Dan Brillman sat down with Bill Gassen, president and CEO of Sanford Health and AHA chair-elect, for a discussion about the changes that have occurred in CMS in…
AHA Board Immediate Past Chair Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO, Corewell Health, and Rob Allen, president and CEO, Intermountain Health, participated in a discussion moderated by Jim Skogsbergh, former chair of the AHA Board of Trustees, for a discussion about the opportunities and challenges…
President Trump April 18 signed an executive order to accelerate research into psychedelic drugs for the treatment of serious mental illnesses, calling out ibogaine compounds as an example of such psychedelics. While the order does not mandate a change in drug schedule for these…