American Hospital Association

AHA Highlights

Perspective: Protecting Health Care Workers and Communities from Violence

Federal data shows that health care workers are five times more likely to experience workplace violence than workers overall. For nearly a decade, the AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative has shone a light on how hospitals and health systems are working to heal victims of violence as well as their communities, prevent further acts of violence, and address violence in the workplace.

Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Importance of Advocacy and Storytelling in Rural Health with Lori Wightman, R.N., CEO of Bothwell Regional Health Center

Tina Freese Decker talks with Lori Wightman about the challenges that rural hospitals and health systems face.

2025 AHA Annual Membership Meeting

Registration now open!

Join us May 4-6, 2025, in the nation’s capital for insightful conversations with policymakers, legislators and thought leaders on the most pressing issues facing our field.

2025 American Hospital Association Leadership Summit. July 20-22, 2025. Nashville, Tennessee. Learn how to receive free registration by attending the Hosted Buyer Forum.

Registration now open! AHA Leadership Summit — July 20-22, 2025.

Join a diverse community of senior hospital and health system leaders and clinicians, trustees and next-generation health leaders for three days of innovative insights, inspiring ideas and disruptive solutions. Early-bird registration ends June 6, 2025.

The Foster G. McGaw Prize. Celebrating Excellence in Community Service.

Foster G. McGaw Prize: Improving Community Health and Well-Being

The Foster G. McGaw Prize celebrates organizations that improve health through community investments and co-designed tactics and programs. If your organization is addressing societal factors that influence health, increasing access to care and driving sustainable improvements, apply for the 2026 Prize. Applications are due May 6.

Building and Implementing an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan for Health Care

Staring at unlimited AI use cases, hospitals and health systems need effective action plans for future health care delivery. The AHA Center for Health Innovation produced this Market Insights report for executives of hospitals and health systems to guide them as they journey into the use of AI and AI-powered technologies.

Resources to Protect America’s Rural Hospitals from Cyberthreats

Rural hospitals are especially susceptible to the “ransomware blast radius” — whereby the threat to patient safety cascades from the hospital to every hospital, clinic and emergency department in the region. John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk, outlines why it is vital to protect rural hospitals from today’s ever-escalating cyberattacks.

Insights to Guide Your Workforce Strategies: New 2025 AHA Health Care Workforce Scan

The 2025 AHA Health Care Workforce Scan offers trends, expert insights and practical recommendations to help hospitals and health systems retain and attract staff while supporting their well-being and resiliency.

New Analysis Shows Hospitals Improving Performance on Key Patient Safety Measures Surpassing Pre-pandemic Levels

New Report Shows Hospital Patient Safety Performance Improving

The AHA today released a new report showing that hospital and health system performance on key patient safety and quality measures was better in the first quarter of 2024 than it was right before the COVID-19 pandemic and that hospitals made these improvements while caring for more complex patients with more significant health care needs.