Issue Landing Page

Landing pages for the American Hospital Association's top advocacy issues.

AHA members are pursuing practices that can reduce health outcome disparities and thereby improve health outcomes for all populations.
This year, House and Senate Republicans are expected to use the budget reconciliation process to pass key agenda items on taxes, energy and border security, and they may look to health measures to pay for this legislation.
The AHA Board of Trustees created the Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities. Comprised of 29 hospital and health system leaders and state hospital association CEOs, the task force held meetings, heard from policymakers and conducted field hearings to speak with hospital and…
Through interviews, site visits and focus groups, the AHA gathered insights from hospital leaders to identify practical strategies, lessons learned and real-world examples. Together, these insights offer a roadmap for rural hospitals working to strengthen maternal care.
Post-acute care is a growing and essential health and social service, accounting for more $2.7 trillion spent on personal health care, and, of that, almost 15% of total Medicare spending. Post-acute care settings include long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs),…
Hospitals and health systems have made important progress in adopting federal price transparency requirements that require they both publicly post machine-readable files of a wide range of rate information and provide more consumer-friendly displays of pricing information for at least 300 shoppable…