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Perspective: Act Now to Protect Access to Care

With a final vote in the Senate possible as early as this weekend and key provisions still being negotiated, it’s critical that we reach out now to Senate and House Republicans to urge them to protect access to health care and services in communities. Specifically, we also need to urge them to make changes to the Senate reconciliation provisions related to Medicaid provider taxes and state-directed payments.

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AHA Ad Urges Congress to Protect Hospital Care

As Congress considers its reconciliation bill, AHA is urging lawmakers to protect access to 24/7 hospital care.

Urge Your Members of Congress to Protect Medicaid and Other Crucial Programs

Please contact your lawmakers today and urge them to reject harmful funding cuts to Medicaid and other health care programs. Explain how cuts to Medicaid and other programs would reduce access to care and services for their constituents. AHA resources can assist your advocacy efforts.

Chair File: The Importance of Legal Advocacy

The AHA is engaged in many 340B Drug Pricing Program court cases, and it continues to urge HHS to reject the drug companies’ unlawful requests that would result in negative consequences for patients and communities. The AHA — working with many state hospital associations — also is engaged in many cases defending state laws prohibiting drug companies from denying hospitals the same 340B discounts for drugs delivered to community pharmacies.

2025 American Hospital Association Leadership Summit. July 20-22, 2025. Nashville, Tennessee. Learn how to receive free registration by attending the Hosted Buyer Forum.

Registration now open! AHA Leadership Summit — July 20-22, 2025.

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.

Circle of Life Award. Celebrating Innovation in Palliative and End-of-Life Care.

Share Successful Palliative and Serious Illness Strategies

Reflect on your accomplishments and celebrate your team by submitting an application for the 2026 Circle of Life Award. The award recognizes innovation in delivering palliative and end-of-life care. The deadline is July 15.

American Hospital Association Member Center. We are AHA.

Are you accessing the full value of your AHA membership?

Visit the new AHA Member Center page on aha.org for an easy on-ramp to the resources, tools and insights available to you as a member of the American Hospital Association.

3 Must-Know Cyber and Risk Realities in 2025

In his latest Cyber & Risk Intel blog, AHA National Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk John Riggi looks at the cyber and physical threats that health care will face in 2025. He also explores health care organizations’ advancements in mitigating those threats as they’ve learned how to better prepare to maintain clinical continuity and business resiliency during prolonged outages.

Insights to Guide Your Workforce Strategies: New 2025 AHA Health Care Workforce Scan

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.

New Analysis Shows Hospitals Improving Performance on Key Patient Safety Measures Surpassing Pre-pandemic Levels

New Report Shows Hospital Patient Safety Performance Improving

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.