Guides/Reports
American Hospital Association guides and reports for members and the health care field.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health system teams experienced violence, from bullying and incivility to active shooters, intimate partner violence, cyberattacks, homicides and suicides. However, the compounding trauma of the pandemic has heightened the need to create a safer…
Reducing stigma and improving access to behavioral health services for the health care workforce, combined with fostering human resilience can improve mental and often physical health, reduce the total cost of care, reduce suicide, and support a healthy workforce.
The third section of the guide describes strategies around recruitment and retention, diversity and inclusion, and creative staffing models.
Section two of the guide focuses on data and analytics, as well as technological supports.
Background
In 1992, Congress created the 340B Drug Pricing Program to allow providers that treat high numbers of uninsured and low-income patients the ability to purchase certain outpatient drugs at discounted prices and use those savings to “stretch scarce federal resources as far as possible…
The AHA Health Care Workforce Scan offers trends, expert insights and bold new approaches to guide your workforce strategies and initiatives.
An emergency management system guide for all first responders and public health agencies.
This report documents the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) findings related specifically to prior authorization and payment delays and denials. This work is informed by two large surveys of hospitals, as well as interviews and group discussions with hundreds of hospital and health system…
The American Hospital Association (AHA) identified and defined a particular set of urban safety net hospitals — the Metropolitan Anchor Hospital (MAH) — that serve large numbers of urban, low-income and historically marginalized individuals. This report describes the distinguishing attributes of…
The first section of the guide, which includes key considerations and questions to drive action, takeaways and action items for CEOs, and resources and case studies, focuses on addressing well-being, supporting behavioral health and workplace violence prevention.