Rural issues
In this Leadership Dialogue conversation, Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health and 2025 AHA board chair, talks with Lori Wightman, R.N., CEO of Bothwell Regional Health Center, about the challenges that rural hospitals and health systems face.
A compilation of recent news from the AHA and the Rural Health Services team, whose focus is to ensure rural hospitals’ and health systems’ unique needs are national priorities.
A grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development has prevented the impending closure of Bucktail Medical Center and preserved its ability to deliver essential care to thousands of rural residents of central Pennsylvania.
AHA letter to the House leadership expressing support for the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act (H.R. 1585).
AHA expresses opposition to H.R. 2191, the Physician Led and Rural Access to Quality Care Act.
More than 550 rural hospitals have joined the Cybersecurity for Rural Hospitals Program, a partnership created last year by the American Hospital Association (AHA) and Microsoft to provide free and heavily discounted cybersecurity services.
2024 Rural Hospital Leadership Team Award Winner and finalists.
John Riggi, AHA national advisor for cybersecurity and risk, and Justin Spelhaug, corporate vice president and global head of Tech for Social Impact at Microsoft Philanthropies, discuss the urgent need for stronger defenses, the role of technology leaders to combat cyberattacks and Microsoft’s…
A cyberattack on a rural hospital or health system can have devastating impacts, leaving in its wake patient harm and financial distress. In part two of this conversation, John Riggi, national advisor for cybersecurity and risk at the American Hospital Association, and Justin Spelhaug, corporate…
Leading a rural hospital can feel like you are battling alone, but together with a unified voice we can advocate for what our rural patients need.