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The driving mission of all hospitals and health systems, regardless of size and location, is to provide quality and compassionate care to patients and advance health in their communities, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack states in an advertorial published today in the Wall Street Journal, noting that hospitals of all types have provided $745 billion in uncompensated care to patients since 2000.