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Hospitals and health systems commend the U.S. House of Representatives for their passage of the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act.

AHA statement for the record as the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety of the Committee on the Judiciary examines the importance of improving the immigration process in order to help alleviate America’s health care workforce shortage.

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.

With overwhelming job demands and insufficient resources, health care workers – including supply chain professionals – are likely to experience increased anxiety, depression, trauma, burnout and ot

AHA letter to Representatives Gregory Murphy, M.D. and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, M.D. voicing support for their bill, the ravel Nursing Agency Transparency Study Act.

The AHA released section two of a three-part series that offers immediate and longer term strategies to help hospital and health system leaders navigate workforce challenges and opportunities.

The ���������� Association (AHA) today released Strengthening the Health Care Workforce, the first of a three-part series to help hospital and health system leaders develop immediate, near- and long-term workforce strategies providing key considerations and questions to drive action, as well as resources and case studies.

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.

AHA urges Congress to act now to prevent additional Medicare sequester cuts to hospitals scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2022.

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.

When others ran from the pandemic, health care workers ran toward it to try to prevent the spread, care for the sick and save lives.

The AHA continues to advocate for solutions to the workforce issues affecting our field.

On behalf of nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, clinical partners, and the 43,000 health care leaders who belong to our professional membership groups, the ���������� Association (AHA) writes Senate leaders regarding funding for health care programs for fiscal year (FY) 2023.

On behalf of nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, clinical partners, and the 43,000 health care leaders who belong to our professional membership groups, the ���������� Association (AHA) writes House leaders regarding funding for health care programs for fiscal year (FY) 2023.

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President Biden today submitted to Congress his budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2023.

Our nation’s health care workers deserve the same protections and the same commitment from the Department of Justice. We therefore urge Attorney General Merrick Garland to support legislation, modeled after 18 U.S.C. § 46504, that would provide similar protections as those that currently exist for flight crews and airport workers.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today reopened the comment period for certain topics in its interim final rule establishing an emergency temporary standard for occupational exposure to COVID-19.

In celebration of National Women’s History Month, Priya Bathija, AHA’s vice president of strategic initiatives, h

In a letter submitted to the House Energy and Commerce Committee in advance of an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing today on the pandemic’s impact on the health care workforce, AHA called the challenges facing America’s health care workforce as the country enters the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency that demands immediate attention and “workable solutions.”