Testimony
Feb 15, 2022
Statement
of the
American Hospital Association
to the
Committee on Finance
of the
United States Senate
“Protecting Youth Mental Health: Part II - Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Care”
February 15, 2022
Feb 10, 2022
Statement of the
American Hospital Association to the
Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety
of the
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
of the
United States Senate
“Recruiting, Revitalizing & Diversifying: Examining the Health Care Workforce Shortage”February 10, 2022
Feb 3, 2022
AHA statement submitted to the House Ways and Means for a hearing on the nation’s mental health crisis.
Feb 2, 2022
the American Hospital Association (AHA) appreciates the opportunity to submit for the record our comments regarding concerns about anticompetitive conduct on the part of health care staffing agencies, some of which have been exploiting the severe shortage of health care providers during the COVID-…
Feb 1, 2022
On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, our clinician partners – including more than 270,000 affiliated physicians, 2 million nurses and other caregivers – and the 43,000 health care leaders who belong to our professional membership…
Oct 26, 2021
AHA urges Congress to enact the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (H.R. 1667) and prioritize funding to support the nation’s health care workforce needs during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
May 19, 2021
Since the first COVID-19 cases were diagnosed and the pandemic changed the ways in which patients were able to access traditional health care settings, providers were required to navigate significant challenges to ensure their services were still able to reach millions of patients. In response,…
May 19, 2021
A strong and reliable medical supply chain is a critical and integral component to delivering safe and effective high quality care to patients; however, it has become increasingly clear that the level of fragility across our national medical supply chain is unsustainable and poses significant risk…
May 19, 2021
Being a member of a health system brings measurable benefits to patients and health system employees: lower health care costs, improved patient care, better access to health care providers, and increased investment in technology and equipment.
Apr 28, 2021
The increased use of telehealth since the start of the public health emergency (PHE) is producing high-quality outcomes for patients, closing longstanding workforce gaps and those that arose as a result of an overwhelmed, hardworking provider workforce, and protecting access for patients too…