AHA Stat Blog

Smarter, more efficient, more convenient. These goals are shaping transformation at hospitals and health systems throughout the country.

Catherine Carruth, executive director at AHA’s American Society for Health Care Human Resources Administration, and Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of AHA’s Physician Alliance, share six key takeaways from HR thought leaders.

Hospitals and health systems can use data and metrics to guide their strategies on social needs and social determinants, writes Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative.

Tomorrow’s health care leaders can get a big boost from a new AHA program designed to develop and accelerate their ability to successfully lead America’s hospitals and health systems into the next decade and beyond.

The latest report from AIR340B continues to misrepresent a program with a more than 25-year history of helping hospitals stretch scarce financial resources to expand and improve access to lifesaving prescription drugs and comprehensive health services for the many patients served by participating hospitals. 

Thank you for everything you do — throughout the entire year — to advance health in America.

Cedars-Sinai President and CEO Tom Priselac talks with Diane Meier, M.D., director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, about building a culture of goal-concordant care for seriously ill patients.

Value was mentioned in nearly every conversation I joined.

Preserving rural health and advancing health in America go hand-in-hand.

Improving prior authorization practices: AHA's call for timely responses, transparent appeals process, and reducing unnecessary complexity and cost.

In this AHA blog, Lindsey Dunn Burgstahler, vice president of programming and market intelligence at the AHA Center for Health Innovation, discusses key competencies of transformative heath care leaders and introduces the new AHA Next Generation Leaders Fellowship program.

Many hospitals and health systems are reducing costs and improving health outcomes by addressing disparities head on, write Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative, and Duane Reynolds, president and CEO of AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity.

Our nation’s freedom is safeguarded by our brave women and men in uniform, who willingly risk their lives for love of country and ask nothing in return except for the chance, when the time comes, to successfully return to civilian life.  

From all of us here at the AHA, thank you to every veteran who has defended our country … and our freedom.

In this blog, Andy Shin, chief operating officer of the AHA Center for Health Innovation, discusses an ecosystem approach to health care transformation.

Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of the AHA Physician Alliance, and Andy Shin, chief operating officer at the AHA Center for Health Innovation, share takeaways from the Schwarz Center’s 2019 conference on creating health care cultures of compassion.

This week, AHA leaders are sharing the emergency preparedness efforts of America’s hospitals and health systems at the 43rd World Hospital Congress of the International Hospital Federation in Oman.

There’s no better time for hospitals and health systems to help spread the word about open enrollment and help their communities get covered.

A new study from Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) is another one-sided view of the changing health care landscape that has several key limitations that make it a less than useful view of hospital mergers. 

Maryjane Wurth, AHA executive vice president and COO, previews a new blog series focused on innovation and transformation.