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Fact Sheet: Increased Graduate Medical Education Needed to Preserve Access to Care
However, hospitals and health systems now face mounting and critical physician shortages — estimated to reach 86,000 physicians by 2036 — that will jeopardize access to care in communities across the nation.
Fact Sheet: Health Care Workplace Violence and Intimidation, and the Need for a Federal Legislative Response
Congress should enact the Safety from Violence for Healthcare Employees (SAVE) Act, which provides health care workplace protections against violence similar to those that exist for flight crews, flight attendants and airport workers.
Fact Sheet: Strengthening the Health Care Workforce
The AHA urges Congress and the Biden Administration to prioritize funding for the infrastructure that supports the health care workforce needs of the country in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and into the future.
Fact Sheet: Workplace Violence and Intimidation, and the Need for a Federal Legislative Response
For the past decade, the health care field has experienced a sharp increase in workplace violence.
Fact Sheet: Federal Student Loan Limits for Graduate and Professional Programs
The AHA urges the Department of Education (DOE) to include a full range of health care post-baccalaureate professional degree programs in its definition of professional degrees in its One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) new borrowing limits for students seeking federal aid.
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.
Fact Sheet: Advocacy Priorities for Fall 2022
America’s hospitals and health systems continue to deal with the difficult challenges of high inflation and ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, hospitals are facing significant increases in costs of labor from workforce shortages, drugs, equipment and supplies (including food and energy costs) that are threatening their stability and ability to provide access to high quality health care services. The AHA has developed resources that hospital leaders can use to advocate on these important issues.
Key Provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The following are highlights of provisions included in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that may affect hospitals and health systems and the communities they serve.
Data Brief: Health Care Workforce Challenges Threaten Hospitals’ Ability to Care for Patients
More than 20 months after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in the U.S., the pandemic continues to affect communities across the country and has pushed our health care system to the brink, with the latest surge from the delta variant raising new challenges.