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Medicaid DSH, Site-Neutral Payment Proposals, Medicare, Patient care and Information
As congressional leaders continue to hammer out annual spending bills ahead of the Jan. 19 and Feb. 2 deadlines to fund various agencies, a number of important issues affecting hospitals and health systems are being considered.
Advocacy & Public Policy
As we welcome a new year, this is a good time to examine the health care landscape ahead as we work to ensure Congress fully appreciates how hospitals and health systems need its support to continue delivering high-quality patient care to their constituents and communities.
AHA, Advocacy & Public Policy, Community Benefit, Telling the Hospital Story
Despite significant and ongoing challenges this year, hospitals and health systems can be proud of the job they do each and every day to care for our families, our friends and our neighbors.
Environmental Scan, Patient care and Information
Even prior to the pandemic, the biggest questions facing health care providers were: Where is our field headed? And, how can we continue to innovate and transform to deliver the best possible patient care in a fast-changing future?
Quality & Patient Safety
To support and advance those efforts, the AHA recently launched a new Patient Safety Initiative that seeks to energize all the work already underway and reaffirm hospital and health system leadership and commitment to patient safety.
Veteran Hiring, Veterans Administration (VA)
For nearly 250 years, our courageous and selfless veterans have stood up for the nation’s defense, protecting their countrymen and America’s founding ideals at great personal cost.
Enroll in Health Insurance, Access & Health Coverage
Coverage is the gateway to access health services that can ensure healthier individuals, healthier families and healthier communities.
Age-Friendly Health Systems
Older adults are living and working longer than any time in our history, redefining what life’s later stages look like.
Telehealth
While telehealth use has skyrocketed these last few years, our laws have not kept up.
Tax-exempt Status, Community Benefit, Access & Health Coverage, Population/Community Health
All hospitals and health systems provide an oasis of care, compassion and healing to the patients and communities they serve.