AHA Stat Blog

From all of us at the American Hospital Association, best wishes for a happy, healthy and safe Thanksgiving.

This Thursday is National Rural Health Day, a time to celebrate “the power of rural.”

For nearly 250 years, our courageous and selfless veterans have stood up for the nation’s defense, protecting their countrymen and America’s founding ideals at great personal cost.

AHA and its Institute for Diversity and Health Equity at the 38th National Association of Health Services Executives (N.A.H.S.E.) Annual Education Conference in Atlanta hosted Understanding Bias in Black Maternal Health, which included a screening of “Toxic: A Black Woman’s Story.”

As the role of the board in quality and performance improvement comes into focus, additional support and education in QAPI will ensure that all patients receive safe, high-quality care.

Nearly 15 years ago, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine estimated that only 1.5% of acute care general medical and surgical hospitals had a comprehensive electronic health records system.

Coverage is the gateway to access health services that can ensure healthier individuals, healthier families and healthier communities.

In this episode John Haupert, Chair, American Hospital Association and Mary Beth Kingston, executive vice president and chief nursing officer at Advocate Health will discuss nursing leadership trends and strategies that can make an impact as hospitals and health systems.

Older adults are living and working longer than any time in our history, redefining what life’s later stages look like.

People visit hospitals to receive care for injuries or diseases or undergo needed medical procedures and surgeries.

While telehealth use has skyrocketed these last few years, our laws have not kept up.

For more than a decade, the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act, more commonly known as the “Stark Law,” has protected the Medicare program from unfettered growth in physician-owned facilities and further expanding their practices of selecting the healthiest and most profitable patients, driving up utilization, and deferring emergency services to publicly funded 911 services or general acute care hospitals when their patients need emergency care.

Delivering quality health care to all individuals in our communities — and ensuring they can easily access needed health services — is a top priority for hospital and health system leaders and teams.

All hospitals and health systems provide an oasis of care, compassion and healing to the patients and communities they serve.

Time and time again, it’s been proven that non-profit hospitals more than earn their tax-exempt status by providing benefits determined to best serve each community.

Today we’re proud to share some recent AHA resources surrounding behavioral health.

The AHA has excellent resources to help hospital and health system teams encourage patients and people in their communities to get vaccinated against the flu, COVID-19 and RSV.

Cyber criminals are probing the defenses of health care providers every second of every day.

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal wants you to believe that many of our nation’s emergency departments are incapable of caring for children.

Teams at hospitals and health systems understand that social needs and economic circumstances have a significant impact on an individual’s health and well-being.