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Infection Prevention & Life Safety Checklist
Compliance Tools
Although the primary role of hospital engineering and maintenance staff is to service and maintain the building and equipment, it also plays an important role in preventing infections and other safety issues. By being constantly aware of their surroundings and watching for issues that can increase the risk of infection and other dangers, facility professionals can do even more to improve the safety of their buildings. This checklist provides a guide they can use as they walk through their facilities.
We Care, We Vote Home
Initiatives/Campaigns
Learn more about AHA's We Care, We Vote initiative, our advocacy agenda, find your local elections website, and learn about the candidates and their positions on the issues that matter to you.
Lack of Emergency Lighting
Mitigation tools and resources for emergency lighting in mission critical areas, which is vital and has been a repeated finding by the Joint Commission.
Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health: The Time is Now
Unparalleled workforce shortages, negative margins and increasing labor expenses are creating multiple challenges for hospitals and health systems — but integrating physical and behavioral health services can reduce the total cost of care, improve outcomes and improve workforce satisfaction.
AHA Annual Membership Meeting 2024 Advocacy Messages Card
Hospitals and health systems continue to face unprecedented challenges, including workforce shortages, soaring costs of providing care, severe underpayment by Medicare and Medicaid, and overwhelming regulatory burdens. These challenges are jeopardizing patients’ access to 24/7 care and services.
AHA House Statement on “Fiscal Year 2025 Department of Health and Human Services Budget”
AHA shares concerns about the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Health and Human Services’ (HHS) budget proposals that would unfairly penalize hospitals and not improve cybersecurity of the entire health care sector.
Strategic Workforce
America’s hospitals and health systems are innovating and reshaping how they deliver care.
Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule for FY 2025
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) March 27 issued its fiscal year (FY) 2025 proposed rule for the inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS).
Maternal and Child Health
Maternal and child health is a high priority for AHA and its member hospitals and health systems. We are driven to advance health for women and children through partnerships and innovation in the quality, cost and delivery of care. This work is guided by a committee composed of 15 individuals representing health care leadership from some of the country's leading women's and children's health provider organizations and systems.