Physician Leader
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a Vital Signs report identifying the threats associated with antibiotic resistance (AR) and recommending “early and aggressive action” to prevent resistant pathogens from spreading in health care facilities.
Background
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 imposed caps on the number of residents for which each teaching hospital is eligible to receive Medicare direct graduate medical education (DGME) and indirect medical education (IME) reimbursement. These caps have remained in place and have generally only…
To fully understand how physician practice and contracting arrangements and their relationships with hospitals are developed and affect care delivery, the AHA conducted a baseline survey of the nation’s hospitals and health systems to gather data on the types of relationships physicians and…
The AHA Physician Alliance supports clinical and administrative leadership collaborating effectively for better health of communities.
Statement of the American Hospital Association before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives on Alternative Payment Models (APMs) in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) on March 21, 2018.
The AHA Physician Leadership Experience, available exclusively to AHA Physician Alliance members, teaches physician and administrative executives how to first lead themselves.
AHA's Physician Alliance will host a webinar March 13 featuring Dan Diamond, M.D., on responding to difficult challenges, including physician burnout.
Physician burnout is a silent epidemic that poses serious challenges to patient health and our health care system. But we rarely talk about it, especially the physicians.
Below are six actions everyone can take to address burnout in their organization while helping themselves and colleagues on the road to resilience.
The AHA is accepting nominations through March 16 for outstanding clinicians to be considered for leadership positions within the association. The Committee on Clinical Leadership is seeking five at-large clinicians to serve three-year appointments. The CCL is responsible for providing clinical…