To help streamline and standardize the residency verification process and meet hospital credentialing needs, the AHA, in partnership with other national organizations, has developed templates to provide the necessary information to meet credentialing needs while reducing the need for program…
Workforce
The American Hospital Association offers these resources for addressing health care workforce issues for leaders of hospitals and health systems.
Maintaining a trained workforce is one of the greatest challenges facing rural hospitals today. In Alabama, the shortage is particularly and increasingly severe, especially when it comes to nurses. East Alabama Health is addressing the problem in multiple ways.
If the Board displaces the Health Care Rule through adjudication based on a single employer’s record, every integrated health system in the country will face profound legal uncertainty.
AHA podcast explains how advanced practice providers can help address healthcare workforce shortages
Leslie Clayton, program director for advanced practice provider service at M Health Fairview and chair of the AHA’s APP Leadership Advisory Group, explains why investing in APP leadership is now essential to addressing workforce shortages, expanding access to care and preparing organizations for…
The AHA July 27 expressed support for the National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2025 (S. 1482), legislation that would establish state-based nursing workforce centers to improve understanding of workforce needs and develop evidence-based solutions to address nursing shortages.
This letter provides comment on the American Hospital Association's support of the National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2025 (S. 1482).
Hospitals and health systems can't meet growing patient demand without full leveraging advanced practice providers (APPs).
The AHA provided comments July 21 to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on price transparency, nursing workforce and rural obstetrics legislation that the committee considered during a markup held July 22.
In our previous blog, we examined what the AHA’s affordability recommendations could mean for patients. Now we turn to another critical stakeholder group: employers.
The Department of Homeland Security July 16 finalized a rule replacing “duration of status” admission for certain nonimmigrant visa classifications, including physicians on J-1 visas participating in residency and fellowship programs, with a fixed admission period.