The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that its 2026 Award of Honor will be presented to Carolyn Clancy, M.D., for her long devotion to advancing health care quality and patient safety.
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The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that its 2026 Award of Honor will be presented to The John A. Hartford Foundation for its dedication to improving care for older adults.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that the 2026 Justin Ford Kimball Innovators Award will be awarded to Harsh K. Trivedi, M.D., president and CEO of Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) will present its highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award, to Jonathan B. Perlin, M.D., Ph.D., president and CEO of Joint Commission.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that four retiring state hospital association executives will be awarded its 2026 Board of Trustees Award.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that Deborah Bowen, FACHE, CAE, president and CEO of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), will be awarded its 2026 Board of Trustees Award.
A group of hospital stakeholders, including the American Hospital Association, the Federation of American Hospitals, National Association of Long Term Hospitals and Coalition of Long-Term Acute-Care Hospitals, released the Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTCH) Reform Policy Principles.
While the American Hospital Association appreciates CMS’s efforts to expand the reach of value-based models, we believe that mandatory participation presents significant challenges, particularly for hospitals that lack the scale or financial capacity to make the necessary investments in care redesign.
The AHA released the 2026 edition of its annual Costs of Caring report. It shows hospitals and health systems continue to face increases in the costs of people, supplies, medicines and infrastructure needed to provide care and services to their communities.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced WVU Medicine Potomac Valley Hospital (PVH) in Keyser, W.Va., as the 2026 recipient of the new Rural Hospital Excellence in Innovation Award.
The First Circuit recognized that the district court’s decision halting the 340B Rebate Program was “careful and thorough”— and correct. The AHA remains pleased that these courts have put on hold this harmful program that would have a devastating effect on America’s most vulnerable patients and communities, and the hospitals that serve them.
On behalf of our members — including safety-net hospitals serving rural and underserved communities — we are pleased with today’s decision. The court’s decision halts a rule that would have caused a devastating sea change in a 30-year-old program relied upon by hospitals that serve America’s most vulnerable patients and communities.
American Hospital Association (AHA) President and CEO Rick Pollack today announced his plans to retire by the end of 2026. A 43-
year veteran of the association, Pollack has served as its chief executive for over the past decade.
Patient safety throughout hospitals and health systems across the nation continues to improve, according to a new data analysis of key safety and quality metrics from Q4 2019 to Q2 2025 released today by the American Hospital Association (AHA) and Vizient®.
The AHA applauds CMS’ repeal of the misguided minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.
Today, the American Hospital Association (AHA), the Maine Hospital Association (MHA) and four safety-net health systems from across the country filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maine to stop unlawful changes to a critical program that provides lower-cost drugs to hospitals and clinics that serve rural, poor and vulnerable communities.
The AHA is disappointed that CMS has finalized cuts to hospital and health system services, including those in rural and underserved communities. Combined with its continued inadequate market basket updates, the agency is exacerbating the challenging financial pressures under which hospitals are operating to serve their patients and communities.
Today the Federation of American Hospitals and the American Hospital Association released a new study conducted by Dobson | DaVanzo that underscores the threat to patient care of expanding physician-owned hospitals (POHs) in rural communities.
A new analysis by the accounting firm EY (also known as Ernst and Young) for the AHA shows that tax-exempt hospitals and health systems delivered more than $11 in benefits to their communities for every dollar’s worth of federal tax exemption in 2022, the most recent year for which comprehensive data were available.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has elected Pete November, president and CEO of Ochsner Health in Louisiana to fill a vacancy on its Board of Trustees for a term effective Jan. 1, 2026 and ending Dec. 31, 2028. The Board of Trustees is the highest policymaking body of the AHA and has ultimate authority for the governance and management of its direction and finances.