American Hospital Association

Congress is back in Washington, D.C., seeking to strike a compromise on a common budget resolution that would start the budget reconciliation process. As part of these efforts, Congress is considering proposals that would reduce funding for hospital care — including potentially devastating cuts to the Medicaid program — that would jeopardize access to the 24/7 care and services that hospitals provide.

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Join us May 4-6, 2025, in the nation’s capital for insightful conversations with policymakers, legislators and thought leaders on the most pressing issues facing our field.

Join a diverse community of senior hospital and health system leaders and clinicians, trustees and next-generation health leaders for three days of innovative insights, inspiring ideas and disruptive solutions. Early-bird registration ends June 6, 2025.

The Foster G. McGaw Prize celebrates organizations that improve health through community investments and co-designed tactics and programs. If your organization is addressing societal factors that influence health, increasing access to care and driving sustainable improvements, apply for the 2026 Prize. Applications are due May 6.

Staring at unlimited AI use cases, hospitals and health systems need effective action plans for future health care delivery. The AHA Center for Health Innovation produced this Market Insights report for executives of hospitals and health systems to guide them as they journey into the use of AI and AI-powered technologies.

Rural hospitals are especially susceptible to the “ransomware blast radius” — whereby the threat to patient safety cascades from the hospital to every hospital, clinic and emergency department in the region. John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk, outlines why it is vital to protect rural hospitals from today’s ever-escalating cyberattacks.

The 2025 AHA Health Care Workforce Scan offers trends, expert insights and practical recommendations to help hospitals and health systems retain and attract staff while supporting their well-being and resiliency.

The AHA today released a new report showing that hospital and health system performance on key patient safety and quality measures was better in the first quarter of 2024 than it was right before the COVID-19 pandemic and that hospitals made these improvements while caring for more complex patients with more significant health care needs.