American Hospital Association

The American Hospital Association (AHA)[3][4] is a health care industry trade group. It includes nearly 5,000 hospitals and health care providers.

American Hospital Association
PredecessorThe Association of Hospital Superintendents of the United States and Canada
Established1898 (1898)
TypeProfessional association
HeadquartersChicago, Illinois[1]
ServicesHealth care
Key people
Melinda L. Estes, MD, Chair
Richard J. Pollack, President & CEO[2]
Websiteaha.org

The organization, which was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1898, with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C.[5][6] is currently headquartered in Chicago.[1]

They issued a statement in 1964 backing "service to all people" regardless of "race, religion or national origin."[7]

History

In 1870, there were only about 100 general hospitals in the United States, but the institution was growing rapidly.[8] Hospital administrators formed an organization, The Association of Hospital Superintendents of the United States and Canada, which held its first meeting in 1899 in Cleveland, Ohio, where seven of the eight superintendents in attendance were based.[8]

The organization was promoted by publisher Del Sutton, whose journal, The National Hospital Sanitarium Record, was adopted by the group in 1900, gradually coming under control of the organization until it was replaced by the organization's own publication, The Modern Hospital.[9][10] Modern Hospital stopped in 1974.[11]

In 1906, the organization adopted its present name. Membership was 450 in 1908.[12] Records of early annual meetings detail some of the conflicts in the emerging hospital culture of Canada and the United States concerning whether hospitals should be governed by physicians or administrators, with non-professionals representing a heavy majority. [13] Current ongoing research into the cost-effectiveness of such a decision has focused on increasing disparities and conflicts of "business ethics and medical ethics" that affect "profitability versus patient and public health care,"[14] as administrative overhead makes up a disproportionate amount of health cost.[15]

Activities

Conventions

AHA, "the country's largest hospital group,"[16] held their first annual convention in 1898.[17]

Intervention

They've intervened regarding medical costs and hospital earnings:

  • showed concern for ability to afford medical care[18]
  • lobbied against Medicare for All proposals,[19] and opposed "free care to low-income people who lack medical insurance."[20]
  • filed lawsuits to stop the U.S. government from requiring that hospitals make their prices public.[3]
  • During the coronavirus pandemic, the AHA, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association asked Congress to provide $100 billion in aid to hospitals for coronavirus testing and treatment.[21][22]

Professional Membership Groups

Professional Membership Groups (PMGs) are affiliated societies which fall under the umbrella of the AHA:

  • American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE)[23]
  • American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration (ASHHRA)[24]
  • American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM)
  • Association for Community Health Improvement (ACHI)
  • Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE)[25]
  • Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM)
  • Association for Healthcare Volunteer Resource Professionals (AHVRP)
  • At Large AHA Membership for Healthcare Management/Consulting Professionals
  • Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development (SHSMD)[26]
  • Institute for Diversity and Health Equity

See also

References
  1. "2018 Form 990 Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax" (PDF). Non-profit "tax return". guidestar.org. August 20, 2019. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
  2. "Richard J. Pollack, President and CEO" (PDF). AHA website. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 24, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  3. Kliff, Sarah; Sanger-Katz, Margot (June 23, 2020). "Hospitals Sued to Keep Prices Secret. They Lost". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  4. "American Hospital Association Responds to Obama Administration". The New York Times. September 24, 2012.
  5. "American Hospital Association - AHA". healthfinder.gov. US Dept. of Health & Human Services. August 12, 2010. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  6. Goodman, Clifford (1988). "HEALTH Health Planning and Administration". In Council on Health Care Technology, Institute of Medicine (ed.). Medical Technology Assessment Directory: A Pilot Reference to Organizations, Assessments, and Information Resources. National Academies Press. pp. 524–8. ISBN 0-30903-829-4.
  7. "Hospitals Back Integration". The New York Times. March 10, 1964.
  8. Vogel, Morris J. (1989). "Managing Medicine: Creating a Profession of Hospital Administration in the United States, 1895-1915". In Granshaw, Lindsay; Porter, Roy (eds.). The Hospital in History. Routledge. p. 244. ISBN 0415056039.
  9. Vogel 1989, p. 245.
  10. "American Hospital Association". JSTOR.org.
  11. "New Magazines Planned". The New York Times. February 4, 1974.
  12. Vogel 1989, pp. 244, 245.
  13. Vogel 1989, p. 252.
  14. Connie M. Ulrich (May 25, 2014). "Doctors, Hospitals and Dollars". The New York Times.
  15. https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/wage-gap-between-hospital-executives-and-doctors-widening-study-shows
  16. "Surprise Medical Bills Cost Americans Millions". The New York Times. December 22, 2020.
  17. "LINKS HOSPITAL, CHURCH AND SCHOOL; Dr. Bachmeyer Tells Association They, With School, Form Triad for Welfare of Man. OPENS 28TH CONVENTION 5,000 Delegates Are Welcomed at Atlantic City by Gov. Moore and Mayor Bader". The New York Times. September 28, 1926.
  18. "TO DISCUSS PLIGHT OF 'MIDDLE CLASS'; National Hospital Association Will Convene at Atlantic City Today. RISE OF NEW NEEDY A TOPIC Experts Assert Apartment Folk Need and Contract for Medical Care They Can't Afford". The New York Times. September 27, 1926.
  19. Pear, Robert (February 23, 2019). "Health Care and Insurance Industries Mobilize to Kill 'Medicare for All'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
  20. David Cay Johnston (August 6, 2004). "Nonprofit Hospital Agrees To Limits on Patient Fees". The New York Times.
  21. Herman, Bob. "Hospitals ask for $100 billion coronavirus bailout". Axios. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
  22. "Congress urged to allocate $100 billion to providers in next COVID-19 spending package". American Hospital Association.
  23. "ICU Assistant Nurse Manager job in Farmington, MO - Jobs ..." The New York Times. recognized for its design and function by the American Society for Healthcare Engineering
  24. "Hospital Executives' Pay Rose Sharply in Decade". The New York Times. September 30, 1992. the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration contained data
  25. "Bylaws of the Association for the Healthcare Environment" (PDF). Association for the Healthcare Environment website. February 11, 2013 [1986]. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 23, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  26. "Professional Membership Groups". AHA website. Archived from the original on August 10, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
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