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Robyn Begley, AHA senior vice president and chief nursing officer for its American Organization for Nursing Leadership, and Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative, participated today in a panel discussion sponsored by the National Academy of Medicine’s Committee on the Future…
The National Center for Healthcare Leadership last night presented its 2019 Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award to Rodney Hochman, M.D., president and CEO of Renton, Wash.,-based Providence St. Joseph Health and chair-elect designate of the AHA Board of Trustees.
The AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, Feb. 2-5 in Phoenix, offers an unparalleled opportunity to learn and share with renowned health care leaders innovating at the forefront of change, writes AHA Executive Vice President Maryjane Wurth.
The AHA and Federation of American Hospitals today urged Congress to oppose S. 2860 as well as any other legislation that would repeal current law limiting self-referral to physician-owned hospitals.
Addressing social needs, increasing access to medication-assisted treatment and naloxone, as well as better integrating substance use disorder treatment with physical care are crucial steps hospitals and health systems can and are taking to combat the opioid epidemic.
Building upon and improving the current system in order to increase access to health coverage is a better way forward than a Medicare for All alternative, panelists said Nov. 17 at U.S. News & World Report's Healthcare of Tomorrow conference in Washington, D.C.
We’re proposing that CMS standardize prior authorization requirements and processes and increase its oversight of the health plans the agency regulates, including Medicare Advantage plans.
The National Labor Relations Board should conclude that employee conduct that occurs in a health care setting and violates a lawful employer rule is presumptively unprotected by the National Labor Relations Act.
Maryjane Wurth, AHA executive vice president and chief operating officer, will retire next year after a long and distinguished career in the hospital association field, the AHA announced today.
In this AHA blog, Lindsey Dunn Burgstahler, vice president of programming and market intelligence at the AHA Center for Health Innovation, discusses key competencies of transformative heath care leaders and introduces the new AHA Next Generation Leaders Fellowship program.