Rick Pollack
President and CEO, AHA
Rick Pollack is president and CEO of the American Hospital Association (AHA), the nation’s largest hospital and health care system membership organization with nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health care systems, networks, and other providers of care.
Articles
National Hospital Week, Workforce Planning
Perspective: Inspiring Hope through Healing — Today, This Week and Everyday
President Biden has expressed his hope that America will have a normal, or as close to normal as possible, Fourth of July this year. All the signs increasingly point to fulfillment of that wish — a wish we all share.
Behavioral Health Care Delivery, Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
Perspective: Time for Renewed Focus on Mental Health
Most studies of the toll COVID-19 has taken on the mental health of Americans reach the same conclusion: The pandemic has made what were already serious problems much worse.
Leadership, Recognition and Awards
Perspective: Recognizing and Honoring Our Federal and Military Health Systems
The government’s announcement last week that more than half of all adults in the U.S. have received at least one COVID-19 shot is a remarkable feat that outperforms earlier predictions about the pace of vaccinations across the country.
Leadership, Advancing Health in America, Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
Perspective: Working Together to Advance Health in America
When President Biden signed legislation on Wednesday eliminating the 2% across-the-board cut to all Medicare payments until the end of 2021, it extended needed relief to doctors, hospitals and other providers caring for patients and vaccinating communities.
Legislation and Legislative Advocacy, Infrastructure, Leadership, Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
Perspective: Critical Infrastructure Legislation Must Include Hospitals
When Congress returns to Washington, D.C., on Monday, lawmakers’ attention will turn to one of the largest infrastructure spending packages in our nation’s history.
COVID-19: Vaccines and Therapeutics, Leadership
Perspective: Building Vaccine Confidence
As more vaccine supplies become available and more jurisdictions expand priority categories or do away with them altogether, hospitals and health systems continue to work overtime to serve as access points.
Medicare, Leadership, Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
Perspective: The Wrong Time to Cut Medicare Provider Payments
The incredible job that hospitals and caregivers have done over the past year saving lives, treating very sick patients and protecting their communities has been acknowledged and enabled by Congress through relief aid several times since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health Insurance, Leadership
Perspective: Increasing Health Plan Accountability to Benefit Patients
Patients should expect that any drugs or medications they require are safe, administered effectively and available when needed. But, some commercial health insurance companies are changing the rules about how drugs are handled and administered, with serious consequences for patient care.
AHA Physician Alliance, AONL, COVID-19: Caring for Patients and Communities
Perspective: Supporting and Thanking the Physicians and Nurses on the Front Lines
1.5 million people. That’s the approximate number of people that hospitals and health systems have treated for COVID-19 since the pandemic began. To put that in perspective, that would mean filling Chicago’s Soldier Field to capacity 24 times.
Price Transparency, Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19), Leadership, Cost Management
RAND’s solutions for lowering health care costs are ineffective and potentially harmful
A recent report from RAND misses the mark on solutions to the cost of health care and draws its conclusions from the same recycled and incomplete studies.