American Hospital Association

AHA Highlights

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.

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.

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. Early-bird registration ends June 6, 2025.

Rick Pollack, American Hospital Association CEO and President standing in front of United States flag and the AHA seal.

Perspective: As Reconciliation Bill Shifts to the Senate, We Must Speak Up to Protect Medicaid and Access to Care

At this point, nothing is settled, and we still have opportunities to influence the discussion in the Senate and the legislative package they will consider. Nothing is more powerful with lawmakers than your voice — and the voices of your team members, trustees, patients and community members.

Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Tariffs and Health Care with Brian Pomper and Akin Demehin

Tina Freese Decker talks with Brian Pomper, a partner specializing in international trade policy at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, and Akin Demehin, vice president of quality and safety policy at the AHA. Freese Decker, Pomper and Demehin discuss tariffs and their potential implications on the health care supply chain.

39th Annual AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference. February 8-11, 2026. San Antonio, Texas. JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country.

2026 AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference

Call for Speakers

We are now accepting speaking proposals featuring rural hospital executives, clinical leaders and trustees as presenters. The proposal deadline is Friday, June 6. 2025.

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.