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New AHA Report Finds Workplace and Community Violence Cost Hospitals More than $18 Billion Annually
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today released a new, comprehensive report that measures the substantial financial resources hospitals and health systems spend on preventing and responding to violence in their facilities and communities.
AHA Applauds Introduction of The Save Healthcare Workers Act
Every day, health care workers bravely serve our communities, providing lifesaving care often under stressful circumstances. It is unacceptable that these dedicated caregivers regularly face the threat of violence while working to help patients heal.
Claire Zangerle Named Chief Nurse Executive of the AHA and Chief Executive Officer of AONL
The American Hospital Association (AHA) named Claire M. Zangerle, DNP, R.N., as senior vice president and chief nurse executive of AHA and chief executive officer of its American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL).
AHA Statement on Final FTC Noncompete Regulation
For all of the reasons the AHA explained in its comment letter, the FTC’s final rule banning non-compete agreements for all employees across all sectors of the economy is bad law, bad policy, and a clear sign of an agency run amok. The agency’s stubborn insistence on issuing this sweeping rule — despite mountains of contrary legal precedent and evidence about its adverse impacts on the health care markets — is further proof that the agency has little regard for its place in our constitutional order.
AHA Statement on Final Rule on Minimum Staffing in Nursing Homes
The AHA strongly believes that a skilled, caring workforce is integral to delivery of high quality, safe care. Yet, the process of safely staffing any health care facility is about much more than achieving an arbitrary number set by regulation.
AHA Advertorial: Strong Hospitals Help Create Healthy Communities
The mission of all hospitals and health systems, regardless of size and location, is to provide quality care to patients and advance health in their communities.
Advertorial: Supporting the Health Care Workers Who Support All of Us - April 25, 2022
While we are hopeful that the nation may be rounding the corner in the battle against COVID-19, the health care workforce continues to contend with many immediate challenges related to the pandemic, as well as a health care landscape that has been deeply altered.
Supporting Those Who Care for Patients
Our workforce continues to confront a landscape deeply altered by the pandemic’s effects. This is especially true of nurses, who are essential in all aspects of health care delivery.
Supporting the Health Care Workers Who Supported All of Us
Health care is, at its core, people caring for people. But the pandemic has strained our health care workforce like never before. The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that hospital employment decreased by almost 100,000 from February 2020 to September 2021, and 30% of health care workers have considered leaving the profession during the pandemic.