Search Results
The default setting for search results displays All Content. If you prefer to see recent content only, please adjust the date filter.
Filter your results:
Types
Topics
215 Results Found
What’s next for rural hospitals? Additional COVID-19 relief and beyond
In this AHA blog, AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels discusses the resources hospitals and health systems need and what additional relief Congress should deliver during the COVID-19 public health emergency and beyond.
Advancing Education and Building Trust to Address COVID-19 in Communities of Color
April is National Minority Health Month. With COVID-19 having a disproportionate impact in communities of color, emphasis on improving access to vaccines as they become more widely available and eliminating health care inequities is critical.
Chair File: Protecting Each Other and Keeping Our Communities Healthy
The AHA has excellent resources to help hospital and health system teams encourage patients and people in their communities to get vaccinated against the flu, COVID-19 and RSV.
Getting Vaccinated to Help Protect Yourself, Your Family and Your Community
As we move into fall and winter, we know the viruses that cause respiratory disease will usually circulate more heavily in communities.
Chair File: Encouraging Immunization to Keep Our Communities Healthy
Vaccines are powerful weapons against most diseases. Nearly a dozen serious diseases —including polio, smallpox and whooping cough — have been eradicated because of vaccines. That’s important to remember as we observe National Immunization Awareness Month in August.
Recent Study on Pandemic Funding Narrow and Incomplete
America’s hospitals and health systems, regardless of size, location and ownership type, provided essential care to their patients and communities during the pandemic. Congress recognized the critical role hospitals play as the backbone of our health care system and swiftly took steps in the early days of the pandemic to provide support to ensure hospitals would remain resilient.
A Strategy to Tackle Public Health Misinformation
By understanding the attitudes and beliefs that drive patient behavior, health care providers and administrators can better design messaging that promotes positive health outcomes, including messages deployed during a public health emergency.
RAND’s solutions for lowering health care costs are ineffective and potentially harmful
A recent report from RAND misses the mark on solutions to the cost of health care and draws its conclusions from the same recycled and incomplete studies.
Supporting Today’s Workforce as We Develop Solutions for the Future
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee last week held a hearing aptly titled “Examining Health Care Workforce Shortages: Where Do We Go from Here?” Clearly, all of our efforts to inform policymakers and the public about the urgent need to address the workforce challenges have resonated on Capitol Hill, as the tone and focus of this hearing demonstrated.
As the Government Prepares to End COVID-19 Emergencies, We Must Use Lessons to Create a Better Health Care System
For three years, hospitals, health systems and health care workers have been on the front lines of the greatest public health crisis our nation has faced in a century.