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To recognize outstanding efforts by hospitals and health systems to provide quality, equitable care for all patients and promote diversity and inclusion in leadership and governance, each year the AHA honors winners of the Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award. The 2022 Equity of Care Award winner is Mount Sinai Health System of New York City. Mount Sinai is being recognized for multiple health equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives.

A behind-the-scenes look at the ongoing pandemic as hospitals continued to face new challenges and still maintain standards of care.

Commercial insurance costs are increasing at an unsustainable rate while many plan policies create dangerous delays in care, contribute to clinician burnout and significantly drive-up administrative costs for the health care system.

Section 2: Data and Technology to Support the Workforce Now Available

The second section focuses on data and analytics and on technological supports. AHA will release the final chapters on creative staffing models in the coming months.

More than 1,200 hospital and health system leaders came together in San Diego beginning yesterday for the 2022 AHA Leadership Summit. See more coverage and insights from the conference on social media at #AHASummit.

Rural hospital leadership teams who have guided their hospital and community through transformational change are encouraged to apply. Applications are due Aug. 31, 2022.

This video summary features some of the accomplishments and key initiatives the American Hospital Association has undertaken to support members during the first part of 2022.

This playbook is designed to guide rural hospital leaders and board members around strategic thinking and local problem solving related to the COVID-19 vaccine and related COVID-19 response, as we as a country attempt to move past the pandemic.

Rising inflation and dramatic growth in expenses for workforce, drugs, medical supplies and equipment continue to strain hospitals more than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Health Equity Roadmap is a framework to help hospitals and health care systems chart their own paths toward transformation to advance equity. The AHA invites members to take the Health Equity Transformation Assessment to begin their journey for systems change.

The 2022 Advocacy Agenda is a forward-looking document designed to positively influence the public policy environment for patients, communities and the health care field.