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Crafting Educational Content that Resonates with Hospital Decision-Makers

Create educational content that engages health care leaders with solutions and ideas to navigate challenges. Learn how with our tips & best practices

Hospital coalition urges FTC to abandon unprecedented challenge to state-approved merger 

The AHA, joined by five other hospital associations, urged the Federal Trade Commission to abandon its unprecedented policy to enforce the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act against state-approved mergers and acquisitions, specifically with Louisiana Children’s Medical Center’s state-approved merger with HCA Healthcare.  
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Hospital Organizations Urge FTC to Abandon Opposition Effort in La. Merger

AHA expresses serious concerns about the Federal Trade Commission’s unprecedented attempt to enforce the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) against a Louisiana hospital’s acquisition of three hospitals in the New Orleans area.

House hearing examines health care costs and consolidation

Mergers and acquisitions are a vital tool to keep financially struggling hospitals open and allow hospitals and health systems to reduce costs, improve quality and better serve patients where they live, AHA told the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee May 17 in a statement submitted for a hearing on health care costs and consolidation.
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AHA Statement to Ways and Means Subcommittee on Consolidated Markets

AHA statement for the record to the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health to provide the hospital perspective on how hospital mergers and acquisitions can expand and preserve access to quality care.
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ACT NOW: House and Senate Hearings this Week to Focus on Key Hospital and Health System Issues

Several House and Senate committees will hold hearings this week on a variety of issues that affect hospitals and health systems.

SHSMD Member Meet Up: The Future Needs You

Join us for SHSMD’s next “Member Meet Up”. For SHSMD members only, join your peers across the country to discuss key topics and issues, and solve problems together. We are starting the year with the topic of “The Future Needs You”

Analysis Gets it Wrong on Health Care Spending

A recent analysis from the Peterson Center on Healthcare and the Kaiser Family Foundation, “What drives health spending in the U.S. compared to other countries,” does not provide a full picture on health care spending in the U.S. while also downplaying the immense role that drug costs play in overall health care spending.

3 Keys to Addressing the Rural Maternal Health Crisis

Rural hospitals, which deliver about one in 10 babies nationally each year, have been closing in significant numbers. Despite the challenging environment, rural hospitals and health systems are taking traditional and innovative approaches to build or expand their maternal health programs.