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
Opioids
Perspective: Action Needed to Fight Opioid Epidemic
The health care community’s efforts alone are not enough to stem the tide of the opioid epidemic. We need more help from the federal government.
Trustee Services, Innovation/New Models of Care
Perspective: Trustees – A Key Ingredient in Innovation
One critical – and sometimes overlooked – ingredient to successful innovation and transformation: trustees. Effectively responding to the forces shaping, and sometimes disrupting, the health care field requires an engaged, nimble and prepared board.
Regulatory Relief
Perspective: The Role of Regulatory Relief in Improving Affordability
We need our government partners to step up and help reduce costs – especially the costs related to the heavy administrative burden faced by health care providers, costs unrelated to delivering patient care.
Physician Self-Referral Law/Stark law, Hospital Value-based Purchasing
Perspective: Time to Make Stark Work for 21st Century Care
We’ve collected examples and outlined how the physician self-referral, or “Stark,” law impedes coordination and shared concrete recommendations for modernizing the law with legislators and regulators. Now, we’re pleased to see that there is a growing consensus and momentum among legislators and regulators on both sides of the aisle that some changes are needed.
Making Healthcare More Affordable
Perspective: Focusing on Affordability
Bending the cost curve to make care more affordable is a complex challenge. But it is a challenge that hospitals and health systems are tackling head on.
Workforce, Leadership
Perspective: Honoring the Unsung Heroes of Yesterday and Today
Health care is full of unsung heroes. Millions of women and men of America’s hospitals and health systems are working every day to improve the health and lives of their neighbors and communities
Workforce Diversity
Perspective: Moving from Diversity to Inclusion
Tt the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity’s National Leadership and Education Conference in Chicago, several hundred hospital leaders, diversity practitioners and leaders in the diversity field came together for three days of thought-provoking discussions and workshops.
Opioids, Advocacy & Public Policy, Opioid Use Disorder, Access to Behavioral Health
Perspective: Making Progress Against the Opioid Epidemic
We were pleased to see the House of Representatives this week move forward dozens of bills designed to address aspects of the opioid epidemic that costs more than 100 American lives each day and continues to ravage communities across the nation.
Redefining the H, Innovation/New Models of Care
Perspective: Accelerating Innovation
We believe it’s important for hospital and health system leaders to understand the trends and forces impacting the field, as well as the opportunities disruptive innovation may create. That’s why we’ve created a new home on AHA.org to track and analyze these trends.
Veterans Administration (VA)
Perspective: Caring for Our Veterans
This weekend we pause to observe Memorial Day to remember those who died and served our nation protecting our freedom and liberty.