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AHA Senate Statement on Examining Health Care Workforce Shortages: Where Do We Go From Here?”
AHA's statement before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions regarding health care workforce shortages.
AHA Senate Statement on Flatlining Care: Why Immigrants Are Crucial to Bolstering Our Health Care Workforce”
AHA statement for the record as the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety of the Committee on the Judiciary examines the importance of improving the immigration process in order to help alleviate America’s health care workforce shortage.
AHA Letter to Congress on Year-End Behavioral Health Priorities
The AHA believes physical and mental health care are inextricably linked, and everyone deserves access to quality behavioral health care. We write to encourage Congress to take steps to provide relief to those seeking and administering behavioral health care.
Senate Passes Omnibus Spending Bill with Health Provisions
Package funds government through Sept. 30 and includes important provisions preventing Medicare cuts, extending telehealth and other flexibilities and improving behavioral health, among others
Acclaimed Musicians Send Holiday Cheer to Front-line Caregivers and Patients
For the third consecutive year, Musicians On Call is reaching out in appreciation of hospitals and health systems and their extraordinary teams with a holiday special featuring acclaimed and award-winning artists.
AHA Expresses Concern about Potential Impact of H.R. 3648, the Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment Act of 2022
AHA expresses concern about the potential impact of H.R. 3648, the Equal
Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment (EAGLE) Act of 2022
Issue Brief: Patients and Providers Faced with Increasing Delays in Timely Discharges
Patients requiring additional care after a hospitalization — such as skilled nursing, behavioral health or therapy-at-home — face growing delays in accessing that care. Delays in discharges as patients move through the continuum of care can cause harm to patients’ health outcomes and can impact their quality of life by slowing their recovery.
Workforce Shortages Delay Patient Discharges and Exacerbate Providers’ Severe Financial Challenges
Significant workforce shortages at facilities, such as those in post-acute and behavioral health, is making it more difficult for hospitals to efficiently and appropriately discharge patients. Hospitals have to bear the costs of caring for patients for those excess days without any reimbursement.
Join Your Colleagues Dec. 6 in Washington or Participate Virtually in an AHA Advocacy Day
Hospital and health system leaders can register for a Dec. 6 AHA Advocacy Day event in Washington, D.C. The in-person event will take place from 10 a.m. to noon ET. Attendees also can participate in a networking event on Monday evening, Dec. 5.
Urge Congress to Support Hospitals by Enacting Key Priorities in Lame-Duck Session
The AHA has urged congressional leaders to include a number of important provisions in a year-end legislative package to ensure that hospitals and health systems are able to continue their mission of caring for the communities they serve.