Perspective
Perspective is a weekly blog from Rick Pollack, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association, that explores the most important issues facing hospitals and health systems.
For only the second time in its history, the American Red Cross has declared a national blood supply crisis, citing a significant decline in donations and critically low inventories of certain blood types.
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 they serve, as well as in our field overall.
Through wars and recession, pandemics and public health crises, policy upheaval and technological disruption, again and again, hospitals have adapted, improved and led.
The AHA shares the goal of making healthcare more affordable and accessible. We recently released actionable, achievable strategies that will help drive care transformation and make care more affordable.
This summer, hospitals and healthcare organizations across the United States are actively participating in our semiquincentennial (America250) celebration, focusing on the evolution of medicine, public health milestones and community service.
Every day, hospitals and health systems are finding new and better ways to care for the people and communities they serve.
Healthcare affordability remains one of the top concerns for Americans.
Hospitals and health systems are implementing efforts to make healthcare more affordable and accessible, as well as providing solutions that could lower costs across the entire healthcare system.
AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative, brings together hospital and health system leaders, clinicians and community partners to address violence as a public health issue.
Every Memorial Day, we pause to honor the courageous men and women who gave their lives in service to our country.