Issue Brief
The American Hospital Association (AHA) publishes Issue Briefs on policy and advocacy topics that are priorities for hospitals and health systems.
This AHA resource highlights how best to use the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Mapping Medicare Disparities tool.
How are value and health equity connected? The best way to examine the connection between health equity and value is to start by understanding health equity. Health equity is achieved by providing care that does not vary in quality by personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic…
Review our Current Advocacy Activity in Rural Health Care here, and visit the links below for information on some important issues currently in play.
The rapid pace of change in health care, from system redesign to new payment models to increased data reporting and electronic interoperability, has clinician attention divided among many competing priorities. All the while, the health care workforce itself is shifting and changing to reflect the…
The AHA Physician Alliance conducts regular Questions with Clinician Leaders podcast featuring physicians across the country sharing their views on key issues. This focus is on physician well-being, a fundamental value of the Alliance. Below are actions everyone can take to address burnout in their…
Successful strategies to address burnout and build resilience are multifaceted and target key drivers. Often, these strategies include inexpensive interventions sustainably implemented and supported by senior leadership. The Be Well: Field in Action highlights examples of the health care field…
The AHA Physician Alliance frames all resources and services within three fundamental values: Lead Well. Be Well, Care Well, and through its Five Questions podcast, regularly engages physician leaders on these three values. Helping physician and administrative leaders improve the health of the…
Adapted from Executive Insights: Delivery System Transformation, an executive dialog between hospital and health system leaders. Access the complete conversation at www.aha.org/physicians.
Violence is a growing public health issue so in the fall of 2016, the AHA's Hospital Against Violence (HAV) initiative was created. HAV supports AHA members and the health care field as they work to combat workplace and community violence by providing educational offerings, tools, resources;…
This brief is the fourth in a series of issue briefs highlighting data from the 2016 AHA Annual Survey Information Technology Supplement for community hospitals collected November 2016 – April 2017. This fourth brief compares the use of health IT by hospitals and health systems that are…