Issue Landing Page
Landing pages for the American Hospital Association's top advocacy issues.
Join us for a series of webinars on securing grant funds for maternal and child health initiatives.
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…
Social drivers of health are the non-medical factors that impact people’s ability to be and stay healthy. They include safe and stable housing, access to nutritious food, transportation, education, employment, social support, neighborhood safety, and clean air and water.
Hospitals increasingly are part of holistic approaches to address both the medical and non-medical drivers of poor health and are primarily able to do so through their community benefit programs. This page profiles nonprofit hospitals and health systems, which must meet specific requirements under…
The AHA has the responsibility and opportunity to take action on the most pressing health care issues today. We embrace this opportunity to drive meaningful progress, and to do so by collaborating with our hospital and health system members, government agencies, business partners, community…
Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) — or excessive bleeding following childbirth — is the leading cause of maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide. It causes a dangerous drop in blood pressure that can result in organ failure or, in extreme cases, death.
AHA Grant Services helps hospitals and health systems find eligible funding through opportunity searches, proposal writing and application support.
The mission of all hospitals and health systems, regardless of size and type of ownership, is to care for their patients and communities. In addition to providing financial assistance to those in need, hospitals have programs that are responsive to their community’s needs. These community benefits…