American Hospital Association

At the AHA’s Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, the passion in the room and family connections formed were electrifying. Hospital leaders wer from all over the country, red states and blue states, coastal areas and inland, but every single person there was fully committed to helping the communities they serve be and stay healthy. And that is what unites us.

We look forward to welcoming hospital and health system leaders to our 2025 AHA Annual Membership Meeting in Washington, D.C., in less than two months. Our top priorities are clear. We must ensure continued access to health coverage for vulnerable populations and the financial sustainability of hospitals and health systems so they can deliver the care that people and communities depend on.

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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.

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 Next Generation Leaders Fellowship is a unique opportunity to be paired with an executive-level mentor who will guide you through the planning and execution of a year-long capstone project at your hospital or health system, tackling key issues and challenges affecting health care affordability, cost, quality and safety.

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.