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Leading a rural hospital can feel like you are battling alone, but together with a unified voice we can advocate for what our rural patients need.

We look forward to welcoming hospital and health system leaders to our 2025 AHA Annual Membership Meeting in Washington, D.C., in less than two months.

With March kicking off tomorrow, we’re approaching March Madness when college basketball teams across the country compete in the annual tournament that often is full of twists, turns and surprises.

Congress passed into law legislation in 2021 that allowed additional eligibility for enhanced premium tax credits to help certain individuals and families purchase insurance on the health insurance marketplaces.

In this Leadership Dialogue, Lynn Hanessian, former chief health strategist for Edelman, which recently released its 2025 Trust Barometer, and AHA Board Member Robert Trestman, M.D., chair of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Carilion Clinic., join Tina Becker Freese to discuss the importance of trust and how it has evolved in recent years.

For the roughly 60 million Americans living in rural areas, their local hospital is the lifeblood of their community.

One month from today — March 14 — government funding expires, and congressional action is needed to keep the government running.

The AHA Next Generation Leaders Fellowship helps develop future health care leaders to innovate and better serve their communities.

Trust — in one another, our hospitals and health systems, our communities and our government — feels more important than ever.

The AHA Next Generation Leaders Fellowship focuses on developing leaders and empowering them to bring about real and lasting change in the hospitals and health systems in which they serve, as well as our field overall.

Each and every day across the country, our nation’s hospitals and health systems are always there, ready to care.

There is so much for health care leaders to navigate when it comes to public policy and government relations. Thankfully, the AHA has an expert team with extensive experience who are advocating for the field and here to listen and help.

All eyes this week have been on Washington, D.C., as President Trump was inaugurated and the 119th Congress — with Republicans holding majorities in the House and the Senate — beginning its legislative work.

Hospitals can play a key role in building holistic treatment and support for perinatal mental health disorders during this critical period.

On Monday, we observe two events of great importance to our nation: the quadrennial inauguration of a president, and we recognize the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who dedicated his life to nonviolent change in the cause of justice. These two occasions are intertwined in profound ways.

As AHA chair, Tina is committed to ensuring you as members feel heard, listened to and supported through the AHA so we can do what we do best: providing the very best care to our patients and to our communities.

Thomas Edison once said, “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”

The arrival of the holiday season and the coming New Year remind us of the swift passage of time. But they also demonstrate the timelessness of human kindness.

The AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity just wrapped up another distinguished year, where its work resonated with and celebrated AHA members and stakeholders across the field.

In this Leadership Dialogue — my last one as AHA board chair — I talk with Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health, an integrated, not-for-profit health system headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich., and serving the entire state. Tina will be taking the reins as chair of the AHA Board of Trustees in 2025.