Guides/Reports
American Hospital Association guides and reports for members and the health care field.
On April 5, the Centers for Medicare…
Strong leadership is essential for informing and supporting professional shared governance. Effective leaders use the structures of professional governance to build a culture of excellence, where interprofessional teams can exercise accountability for service delivery that advances patient outcomes.
As organizations rethink their approaches to recruitment and retention, many are expanding on the strategic relationships that exist between clinical settings and educational institutions to advance mutual interests and priorities.
The fourth section of the guide includes strategies around hiring veterans, professional governance models and academic-practice partnerships.
As organizations rethink their approaches to recruitment and retention, consider the value military veterans bring. They contribute both clinical skills and leadership experience, both critical as hospitals pursue new care models.
In 2021, the American Hospital Association’s Hospitals Against Violence (HAV) Advisory Group developed the Building a Safe Workplace and Community framework to guide health care leaders in their efforts to prevent and mitigate violence.
In 2020, the most recent year for which this information is available, tax-exempt hospitals participating in the 340B drug savings program provided $84.4B in total benefits to their communities. Total community benefits for 340B hospitals increased from $67.9 billion in 2019 to $84.4 billion in…
Beginning in 2018, the AHA contracted with Candid to create a file of all Schedule H forms electronically submitted by hospitals to the IRS for the most recently completed tax year, 2020. Using the Candid database, as well as AHA annual survey data, the AHA can now provide benchmark reports to all…
Tax-exempt hospitals provided nearly $130 billion in total benefits to their communities in 2020 alone — the most recent year for which comprehensive data is available. This new report demonstrates that hospitals never retrenched during the pandemic, and, in fact, the amount of community benefit…
Two hospitals combine their resources to implement a widespread peer support program across the system.