COVID-19: Caring for Patients and Communities

AHA Board Chair Rod Hochman, M.D., and AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack continued to sound the alarm over health care workforce challenges as COVID-19 surges across the country. 
Members of the AHA Board of Trustees have recorded video messages to say thank you to the team members at America’s hospitals and health systems for all they have done — and continue to do — to care for patients and serve communities.
In the final episode of our four-part series on Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs) Elisa Arespacochaga, AHA vice president of clinical affairs and workforce, sits down with Nicole Iarrobino, senior project administrator of Patient and Family Advisory Councils at John Hopkins Hospital and…
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AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack Sunday submitted the following letter to the editor of the New York Times responding to an article published online on a recent study in JAMA Health Forum on the Provider Relief Fund. 
The authors of a recent study that looked at CARES Act Provider Relief Funds allocated to health care institutions made arbitrary choices about which payments to include in the analysis. This resulted in incomplete or skewed findings.
A recent study published in JAMA Health Forum that examines CARES Act Provider Relief Funds allocated to health care providers misses the point of those payments and makes arbitrary choices about which payments to include, writes Ashley Thompson, AHA senior vice president for public policy analysis…
A recent study published in JAMA Health Forum (“Association Between COVID-19 Relief Funds and Hospital Characteristics in the U.S.”) that examines CARES Act Provider Relief Funds allocated to health care providers misses the point of those payments and makes arbitrary choices about which payments…
Increased health care use and intensity of services have been the key drivers of health care spending growth as the U.S. population continues to age, with hospital price growth averaging just 2% annually from 2010 to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report released today by the…
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today held a hearing examining the impact of COVID-19 on children.