AHA Press Releases

Today's proposed rule is an important step forward in further reducing burdensome requirements to hospitals. Many of these changes will be particularly welcomed by small and rural hospitals.

Lynn C. Jones, president, Christiana Care Home Health & Community Services, Inc. and senior vice president, post-acute care services, Christiana Care Health System of Wilmington, Del., is the 2013 chairman of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation Governing Council.

The nation's hospitals annually employ 5.5 million people and create two trillion dollars in economic activity, yet some in Congress continue to threaten access to hospital services.

In honor of its broad-based efforts to improve the lives of the most vulnerable members of its community, St. Joseph's/Candler Health System in Savannah, Ga. is the recipient of the 2012 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service, one of the most esteemed community service honors in healthcare.

Paul Summergrad, Dr. Frances S. Arkin Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, is the 2013 chair of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section Council for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services.

The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that Ann Bergmann will chair the AHA's 2013 Committee on Volunteers.

The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that Katherine Keene will be chair and Bina Eggensperger, will be chair-elect for the AHA's 2013 Committee on Governance (COG).

Stephen Hanson, FACHE, executive vice president and operations leader for Texas Health Resources' North Zone in Arlington, Texas, is the 2013 chair of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Health Care Systems, a constituency section representing health systems across the country that provide guidance in AHA's policy development and governance.

Rick W. Merrill, president and CEO of Cook Children's Health Care System in Fort Worth, Texas, is the 2013 chair of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Maternal and Child Health.

Alvin Hoover, chief executive officer of Kings Daughters Medical Center (KDMC) in Brookhaven, Miss., will lead the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Small or Rural Hospitals in 2013.

While fixing the physician payment formula is essential, it should not be done by jeopardizing hospitals’ ability to care for seniors and their communities. That’s why we are very disappointed at the approach taken in this measure.

The American Hospital Association (AHA) presented Captain Pachuta and Lieutenant Colonel Kosmatka with awards recognizing their outstanding service to the health care field.

The impending budget crisis is real, and we need to work together to provide financial certainty to our economy. But today's proposal by the House would negatively impact all patients, especially the nation's most vulnerable - children, the poor, elderly and the disabled.

As a member of the NQF and on behalf of the hospital field that is implementing a wide variety of NQF endorsed measures, the AHA is delighted that such a stellar leader has been named to lead the NQF.

Bruce P. Bailey, president and chief executive officer of Georgetown Hospital System, Georgetown, S.C., today was named to the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association (AHA) and chairman of the Association's Regional Policy Board 4.

The American Hospital Association commissioned Public Opinion Strategies to conduct a national survey of registered voters to find out what the public thinks about potential funding cuts for Medicare and Medicaid.

James J. Bleicher, MD, President and CEO of Verde Valley Medical Center (VVMC) in Cottonwood, Ariz., is the 2012 winner of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Shirley Ann Munroe Leadership Award. The award recognizes the accomplishments of small or rural hospital leaders who have improved health care delivery in their communities through innovative and progressive efforts.

The American Hospital Association today filed suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for refusing to meet its financial obligations for hospital services provided to some Medicare patients. The AHA was joined in the suit by four hospital systems in states including Michigan, Missouri and Pennsylvania.

The American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Nurses Association (ANA) today released a new report that found up to 766,000 health care and related jobs could be lost by 2021 as a result of the 2 percent sequester of Medicare spending mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011.

A unique nationwide patient safety project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) reduced the rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in intensive care units by 40 percent, according to the agency's preliminary findings of the largest national effort to combat CLABSIs to date.