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
Leadership, AHA, Burnout, Physician Workforce, Nurses
Perspective: A playbook for strengthening resiliency
Hospitals and health systems face a number of challenges. None is more significant that the need to increase the resiliency of our workforce, particularly among physicians, nurses and other clinicians.
Community Benefit
Perspective: Benefiting Our Communities in More Ways than One
Few — if any — can say they benefit the community as much as America’s hospitals and health systems. On top of delivering around-the-clock care to all who come to us, hospitals and health systems of all types are providing a wide range of comprehensive benefits, activities and services tailored to meet the specific needs of their patients and communities.
Medicaid DSH, Access & Health Coverage
Perspective: Delaying Medicaid DSH cuts is vital to local access to care
There’s strong bipartisan support in the House of Representatives for delaying cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital payments for at least two years.
Human Trafficking, Hospitals Against Violence
Perspective: Hospitals are fighting back against human trafficking
Advancing health in America isn’t just about expanding access to care — it’s also about reaching people who need it. We all have to do our part to end human trafficking and help the victims who are suffering because of it.
Emergency Readiness, Infrastructure, Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities, Opioids
Perspective: Investing in infrastructure can advance health in America
Investing in our country’s health infrastructure is the right move to make.
Maternal Health
Perspective: Advancing health for mothers and babies
With our Better Health for Mothers and Babies initiative, America’s hospitals and health systems are enhancing our commitment to improving maternal health.
Nurse Leadership
Perspective: AHA and nurse leaders are working together to advance health in America
AONL is leading the nursing leadership field forward, and the AHA will keep working to support them so that, together, we can advance health in America.
AHA Annual Membership Meeting, Medicare
Perspective: Highlights from the 2019 AHA Annual Membership Meeting
"Medicare for All" sounds like a good idea ... but we have a better way to meet today’s challenges, create a healthier tomorrow – and advance health in America.
Affordable Care Act
Perspective: The hospital field is fighting to protect coverage gains
The AHA has always been for common-sense policies that make it easier for patients to access care and for hospitals and health systems to deliver that care – and this will never change.
Medicare, Ambulatory and Outpatient Care
Editorial Fails to Reflect Significant Differences Between Hospitals & Other Sites of Care
The New York Times editorial on proposed Medicare cuts to off-campus hospital outpatient departments (March 26) fails to reflect the significant differences between hospitals, independent physician offices and other sites of care.