Workforce

The ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association offers these resources for addressing health care workforce issues for leaders of hospitals and health systems.

AHACareerCenter.org this week released its 2015 Health Care Talent Acquisition Environmental Scan, an annual snapshot of America’s health care employment landscape. The free report looks at workforce challenges and opportunities facing the field, including changing demographics, the…
The Coalition to Protect a Democratic Workplace, whose members include the AHA, yesterday urged the Senate to adopt a resolution (S.J. Res. 8) that would nullify a National Labor Relations Board final rule changing the process for filing and processing petitions for union representation of…
The results are based on 1,109 hospitals and indicate a slight rise in cultural competency training. However, minorities represented in leadership positions remained flat. This is an update from the 2011 study. The infographic provides a visual snapshot of the major findings in the survey and can…
The AHA, ASHHRA and AONE believe that, in its current rulemaking, the Board has engaged in a process that is unwarranted, unprecedented and contrary to the administration‘s rulemaking goals by resubmitting, in essentially identical form, the Board‘s 2011 NPRM (See 76 Fed. Reg. 36,812).
The health care sector has traditionally been an economic mainstay, providing stability and even growth during times of recession. Health care added an average of nearly 20 thousand jobs per month over the last decade. The goods and services hospitals purchase from other businesses create…
The U.S. health care system faces growing challenges—the U.S. population is aging at a rapid rate; health care reform is expected to bring millions more patients into the system; and there are anticipated shortages in numbers of trained health care professionals to care for these patients.…
It is important to work together to design more value-driven, primary, health and wellness-based services. We need to begin today to evaluate and redesign our primary care models and approaches.
Authored by Kaufman Hall executives, this guide describes the groundwork and prerequisites required for successful hospital-physician integration.