Chairperson's File
Blog posts from 2025 AHA Board Chair Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health, and past chairs.
The AHA Healthcare Transformation Fellowship is an opportunity for health care leaders to tackle key issues affecting health care delivery and affordability.
The AHA鈥檚 Health Research & Educational Trust is partnering with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Catholic Health Association of the United States, with leadership and funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation, to create age-friendly health systems.
Please join me and other AHA leaders at the AHA鈥檚 Institute for Diversity and Health Equity National Leadership and Education Conference, June 28-29 in Chicago. This year鈥檚 theme is 鈥淪trengthening Our Roots: Expanding Our Focus in Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity.鈥
Next week, June 20-22, the AHA is hosting a Team Training National Conference in San Diego for health care organizations to improve patient safety by successfully implementing and sustaining TeamSTEPPS, an evidence-based set of teamwork tools. Hospitals and health systems across the U.S. have used鈥
This is a great time to use social and traditional media to spotlight how your hospital or health system is helping patients and community members maintain and improve their health every day.
The tragic events last Friday in Santa Fe, TX, remind us, violence is all too present in our communities. Our hearts go out to all those affected 鈥 students, teachers, families, friends, first responders, caregivers, clergy and more.
There are excellent initiatives across the country that are making a real difference in people鈥檚 lives.
National Hospital Week is a wonderful opportunity to take time to celebrate the health care field and the people who make health care so special.
AHA Trustee Services 鈥 accessible on the AHA鈥檚 website at trustees.aha.org 鈥 now is the hub for AHA鈥檚 trustee education efforts.
By helping our communities better understand advance directives and health care decision-making at the end of life, we can demystify the topic and increase the number of people who have a plan in place.