Workforce
The 黑料正能量 Association offers these resources for addressing health care workforce issues for leaders of hospitals and health systems.
The AHA virtual State Issues Forum was on October 5th. Korn Ferry facilitated the meeting which focused on the future of leadership and work. Topics covered included: the impact of post-pandemic leadership turnover, emerging leadership capabilities, implications of a highly competitive labor market鈥
The House Ways and Means Committee today started its budget reconciliation markup of the Build Back Better Act, which will consider a number of health care provisions, including workforce issues; extending the expanded Affordable Care Act Marketplace premium tax credits from this year鈥檚 COVID-19鈥
Hospitals and health systems employed nearly 3,200 more people in August, as U.S. jobs overall increased by 235,000, according to preliminary data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Please contact your representatives and senators today and urge them to include a number of policies that support America鈥檚 hospitals and health systems to ensure that the nation鈥檚 health care needs can be met today and into the future.
It is imperative that Congress invest in America鈥檚 hospitals and health systems to ensure
that the nation鈥檚 health care needs can be met today and into the future. The AHA supports
investments in infrastructure, such as the health care workforce, behavioral health, the
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The 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) would like to share hospital and health system priorities that would benefit patients and communities around the country that we would like to see included in the upcoming budget reconciliation legislation.
At the urging of the AHA, the State Department said that because of the emergence of the COVID-19 delta variant and continued demand for health care professionals, U.S. embassies and consulates were instructed that they may prioritize 鈥渁s emergencies on a case-by-case basis the immigrant visa cases鈥
The Health Resources and Services Administration has extended to Sept. 20 the deadline for health care providers, associations and federally qualified health centers to apply for $29 million to promote resilience, mental health and wellness in the health care workforce.
This Legal Advisory provides in-depth analysis of the DOJ鈥檚 and FTC鈥檚 policies and insights on how the hospital sector should respond and reduce their risks of prosecutions of no-poach agreements.
Given the recent upsurge in COVID-19 cases around the country, we can鈥檛 say how much longer the official public health emergency will last. But we do know that many regulatory waivers put into place by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at the start of the pandemic have worked very鈥