Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources and Special Communications
Below are links to AHA resources developed in response to novel coronavirus (COVID-19). For all coronavirus resources and news updates, visit our COVID-19 page.
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View stories from the field and important resources. The AHA remains committed to helping rural hospitals and health systems address the COVID-19 pandemic in their communities. Many states are removing restrictions under new local, state and federal guidelines, and hospitals are resuming non-emergency procedures.
AHA provides the House Education and Labor Committee with information on actions taken by hospitals and health systems in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about new challenges for health care providers including the way teams communicate and work together.
In the second of this two-part podcast, Elisa Arespacochaga, vice presiden
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AHA’s statement for the record to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means for the May 27, 2020 hearing, “The Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color.”
AHA announces inaugural class of Next Gen Fellows. The national fellows class of 2020 will tackle key challenges affecting health care affordability, quality and safety
On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, our clinical partners – including more than 270,000 affiliated physicians, 2 million nurses and other caregivers – and the 43,000 health care leaders who belong to our professional membership groups, the American Hospital Association (AHA) writes in support of your legislation, H.R. 6886, the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020.
This discussion with Justin Bhandari, VP Operations at post-acute care partner organization MPAC Healthcare, will cover the ways the MPAC leadership team has adjusted in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Front-line staff in a New York City hospital meet for “hope huddles” to share positive patient outcomes and inspiring stories.
The Fort Myers Police Department shows its appreciation to local health care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
During and moving beyond the pandemic, hospital and health system boards and executive teams need to keep community stakeholders engaged to forge a better state of health in their communities.
The U.S. economy has started to reopen as the impact of COVID-19 gradually subsides, but four of five senior health care leaders surveyed recently expect a significant spike in cases in their regions by fall and more than 74% do not believe an effective vaccine will be widely available until after July 1, 2021.
Nation-state cyber actors are targeting many domestic universities, research institutes, and private companies conducting COVID-19-related research.
Criminal and nation-state cyber actors since February 2020 have been increasingly targeting US pharmaceutical, medical, and biological research facilities to acquire or manipulate sensitive information, to include COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research amid the evolving global pandemic.
Hear what consumers in a recent national survey had to say about their concerns of returning to health care providers for care and what their expectations are of us to ease those concerns.