Advancing Health in America

American Hospital Association content from its Advancing Health in America campaign for improving community health.

Hospitals are focusing on nutrition to care for all needs of their patients, sending them home with prescriptions as well as bags of healthy food.
Table of Contents How Hospitals Are Advancing Health (infographic) 1 Introduction 2 5 Steps to Get Social 3 Telling the Hospital Story 6 How AHA Can Help Your Hospital Tell Its Story 9
The same cohort of authors responsible for the Health Care Pricing Project’s flawed 2015 paper recently released an updated version.
We applaud the announcement of the Health Care Innovation Caucus led by Representatives Kelly (R-PA), Kind (D-WI), Mullin (R-OK), and Bera, M.D. (D-CA) to encourage innovative policy ideas to improve the quality of care and lower costs for patients. America’s hospitals and health systems are…
How do you fully recover from a Category 5 storm? And plan for the next one? Those are the questions Puerto Rico’s hospital leaders continue to ask five months after Hurricane Maria’s 155-miles-per hour winds left the island’s health system on life support. 
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that John Riggi has joined the association as Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk.
Traditionally the month for lovers and all things heart related, February also reminds us to take care of our heart. It is American Heart Month.
When hospital and health system leaders from across the nation come to the 2018 AHA Annual Membership Meeting, May 6-9, in Washington, D.C., they will make their voices heard on Capitol Hill.
Press ReleaseStatement on the Nomination of Alex Azar as HHS Secretary Contact: Marie Johnson, (202) 626-2351 mjohnson@aha.orgColin Milligan, (202) 638-5491 cmilligan@aha.org Rick PollackPresident and CEOAmerican Hospital Association
Press Release Statement on the Trump Administration's Opioid Announcement Contact: Marie Johnson, (202) 626-2351 mjohnson@aha.org Colin Milligan, (202) 638-5491 cmilligan@aha.org     Rick Pollack President and CEO American Hospital Association