Leadership

AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack kicked off the AHA Virtual Executive Forum: Advancing Health Equity and Eliminating Care Disparities by welcoming hospital and health system leaders to the first virtual executive forum.
President-elect Joe Biden nominated California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as the next Health and Human Services Secretary.
AHA statement on President-Elect Biden’s health team from President and CEO Rick Pollack.
AHA statement on the nomination of Xavier Becerra as HHS secretary
Since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the U.S. nearly 10 months ago, our hospitals and health systems have learned so much about how to slow down the spread, care for patients and help them recover.
Two hundred twenty-four. That’s the number of days since the last COVID-19 relief package was signed into law.
Tom Nickels, AHA executive vice president for government relations and public policy, will retire from the association next April after a long and exceptional career in the association and political world, AHA announced. 
Claire Zangerle, R.N., chief nurse executive at Allegheny Health Network, today joined AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., to discuss how hospitals can support their workforce as they move from relief, recovery, and rebuilding to reimagining and innovation.