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Blogs from AHA leaders and members on the latest health care issues.
Traditionally the month for lovers and all things heart related, February also reminds us to take care of our heart. It is American Heart Month.
Before we can help others, hospital workers must be healthy themselves—which is why hospitals monitor for sick health care workers and adhere to hand hygiene practices and droplet precautions.
The AHA Physician Alliance provides new resources and services to support a common language and shared leadership among all health care leaders.
When hospital and health system leaders from across the nation come to the 2018 AHA Annual Membership Meeting, May 6-9, in Washington, D.C., they will make their voices heard on Capitol Hill.
Let's resolve to take the lead in our health and well-being.
Prescription drug prices are out of control. The average annual cost for one specialty medication to treat a chronic condition is now more than what most families earn in a year. Big Pharma could solve the problem by committing to more rational and sustainable pricing models.
Charity care spending flat among top hospitals (January 6, 2018) gives readers an inaccurate and incomplete picture of how hospitals and health systems provide tremendous benefit to both patients and their communities, and do so while facing many challenges in delivering care.
We talk a lot about how health insurance coverage improves people’s health and increases their financial security. But health coverage also seems to help fight crime.
Jacob Vogler, a PhD, economics student at the University of Illinois, tracked figures from the FBI Uniform Crime Reports and the…
January is National Blood Donor Month – an excellent time to make blood donation a New Year’s resolution.
The American Red Cross created the January awareness campaign in 1970 to encourage people to donate blood during a time when changing weather, busy holiday schedules, increased cold and flu…