/ en Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:59:45 -0500 Tue, 05 Nov 24 15:19:00 -0600 /education-events/2025-aha-annual-membership-meeting <p><strong>Don’t miss your chance to influence policy and advocate for patients, caregivers, and communities. AHA’s Annual Membership Meeting is the nation’s leading conference for hospital and health system leaders advancing health in America.</strong></p><p>Join us in the nation’s capital May 4-6, 2025, for insightful conversations with policymakers, legislators, and thought leaders on the most pressing issues facing our field. You’ll connect with the decision makers who create, shape, and implement health care policy and influence the political landscape. With a focus on AHA’s key advocacy priorities, these three days of programming will give you what you need to make your voice heard on the Hill.</p><p><strong>Who Will Be There?</strong></p><p>More than 1,000 hospital and health system leaders will gather to discuss advocacy, regulatory, and legislative issues affecting the nation’s hospitals, patients, and communities, including:</p><ul><li>Presidents, CEOs, Administrators</li><li>C-suite Executives, Senior VPs, VPs</li><li>State, Regional, Metro Hospital Association Executives and Staff</li><li>Government Relations Staff</li><li>Governing Board Members, Trustees</li></ul><p><strong>Registration opens January 2025!</strong></p><p>Health Care Provider, AHA Organizational Member </p><ul><li>Early Bird Rate! Register by March 3, 2025: $795</li><li>Regular Rate: $895</li></ul><p>Health Care Provider, Non-Member of the AHA: $1,500<br>Associations and Health Care Groups: $1,500</p><p>Solution Providers:  Only <a href="https://sponsors.aha.org/HFC-Sponsor-16646-Annual-Meeting-2025_HFC-Sponsor-Annual-Meeting-2025.html" target="_blank">Sponsors</a> and <a href="https://sponsor.aha.org/associate-program" target="_blank">AHA Associates</a> can participate in the AHA Annual Membership Meeting. </p> Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:19:00 -0600 Trustee /education-events/aha-annual-meeting <p><strong>Don’t miss your chance to influence policy and advocate for patients, caregivers, and communities. AHA’s Annual Membership Meeting is the nation’s leading conference for hospital and health system leaders advancing health in America.</strong></p><p>Join us in the nation’s capital April 14–16, 2024 for insightful conversations with policymakers, legislators, and thought leaders on the most pressing issues facing our field. You’ll connect with the decision makers who create, shape, and implement health care policy and influence the political landscape. With a focus on AHA’s key advocacy priorities, these three days of programming will give you what you need to make your voice heard on the Hill.</p><h3><small>Who Will Be There?</small></h3><p>More than 1,000 hospital and health system leaders will gather to discuss advocacy, regulatory, and legislative issues affecting the nation’s hospitals, patients, and communities, including:</p><ul><li>Presidents, CEOs, Administrators</li><li>C-suite Executives, Senior VPs, VPs</li><li>State, Regional, Metro Hospital Association Executives and Staff</li><li>Government Relations Staff</li><li>Governing Board Members, Trustees</li></ul><p><a href="https://annualmeeting.aha.org/agenda" target="_blank"><strong>Agenda</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://annualmeeting.aha.org/speakers" target="_blank"><strong>Speakers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://annualmeeting.aha.org/hotel-travel-0" target="_blank"><strong>Hotel & Travel</strong></a></p> Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:38:43 -0500 Trustee /education-events/2023-aha-annual-membership-meeting <p><span><span>Join your colleagues at the 2023 AHA Annual Membership Meeting, April 23-25, to ensure our message is united, powerful and able to break through the noise, making a positive impact for the patients and communities you serve. Meet face-to-face with your elected officials and key policymakers to discuss how you are caring for your community and making a difference. Hear from innovative health care leaders, legislators, journalists, and other thought leaders of our day on critical issues that will have an impact on our field and how we will continue to care for patients. And network with your peers as you tackle today’s toughest issues, together. We look forward to seeing you there!</span></span></p> <p>Please visit the <a href="https://annualmeeting.aha.org/registration">conference website</a> for additional information. Registration is now open.</p> Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:57:21 -0600 Trustee <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8"> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>We want to welcome you as you take on another part of the Health Equity Transformation journey. Now that you have received your HETA profile, the fun work of organizational change begins. We have heard from many hospitals and health systems that the greatest challenge is moving forward beyond the proclamation that equity is essential to patient safety and equitable hospital organizations. We have developed this action planner tool to support you in moving across the transformation continuum.</p> <p>Once you have studied and discussed your profile, you will find the links to the appropriate levers that correspond with advancing to your next position on the continuum. As part of this process, you are invited to participate in a community of learners on the equity journey in hospitals and health care systems. Sharing your innovative policies and practices, learnings, questions and accomplishments are some of the features of the Equity Roadmap Journey Community.</p> <p>As your hospital travels across the continuum we have outlined primary deliverables of each position on the continuum below:</p> <p><img alt="Tranformation Continuum. Primary Deliverables: Exploring—Strategic Planning: Develop strategic plans. Committing—Implementation Planning: Develop implementation plan of strategy. Immersing—Leadership Accountability: CEO and management teams integrate learning DEI framework as Standard Operating Procedures. Affirming—Institutionalization: Policies and practices are assessed and monitored for sustaining DEI progress toward goals. 5. Transforming—Investing in the Community Ecosystem: Collaborate with a wide range of representative stakeholders to promote DEI in the communities hospital serves." data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9e838e87-ac4c-4fd3-824a-36613b15c142" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/TAP-Transformation-Continuum_0.png" width="2875" height="824"></p> <p>Action Planning is a critical step in collectively advancing equity and dismantling structural barriers (e.g., racism, sexism, ageism, etc.) in hospitals and health care systems. This process is designed to support hospitals at every stage of the journey. Some hospitals are just beginning, developing a strategic plan and looking for data to collect, while others have institutionalized equity through policy and practice. Some are collaborating with a wide range of community stakeholders to advance health equity in their ecosystem. Regardless of your starting point, AHA invites you to use the Action Planners to mobilize your leadership, governing body, staff and community toward institutional change. Discover opportunities to change policy and practices that will institutionalize equity in your organization.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <p><a href="/system/files/media/file/2022/01/equity-roadmap-tap-diverse-leadership-transforming.pdf" target="_blank" title="Click here to download the complete Diverse Representation in Leadership and Governance: Transforming Transformation Action Planner PDF."><img alt="Diverse Representation in Leadership and Governance: Transforming Transformation Action Planner page 1." data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="df3dddfa-37cd-4510-8271-6595c1473961" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Page-1-equity-roadmap-tap-diverse-leadership-transforming.png" width="3971" height="3069"></a></p> </div> </div> </div> Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:35:13 -0600 Trustee <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8"> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>We want to welcome you as you take on another part of the Health Equity Transformation journey. Now that you have received your HETA profile, the fun work of organizational change begins. We have heard from many hospitals and health systems that the greatest challenge is moving forward beyond the proclamation that equity is essential to patient safety and equitable hospital organizations. We have developed this action planner tool to support you in moving across the transformation continuum.</p> <p>Once you have studied and discussed your profile, you will find the links to the appropriate levers that correspond with advancing to your next position on the continuum. As part of this process, you are invited to participate in a community of learners on the equity journey in hospitals and health care systems. Sharing your innovative policies and practices, learnings, questions and accomplishments are some of the features of the Equity Roadmap Journey Community.</p> <p>As your hospital travels across the continuum we have outlined primary deliverables of each position on the continuum below:</p> <p><img alt="Tranformation Continuum. Primary Deliverables: Exploring—Strategic Planning: Develop strategic plans. Committing—Implementation Planning: Develop implementation plan of strategy. Immersing—Leadership Accountability: CEO and management teams integrate learning DEI framework as Standard Operating Procedures. Affirming—Institutionalization: Policies and practices are assessed and monitored for sustaining DEI progress toward goals. 5. Transforming—Investing in the Community Ecosystem: Collaborate with a wide range of representative stakeholders to promote DEI in the communities hospital serves." data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9e838e87-ac4c-4fd3-824a-36613b15c142" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/TAP-Transformation-Continuum_0.png" width="2875" height="824"></p> <p>Action Planning is a critical step in collectively advancing equity and dismantling structural barriers (e.g., racism, sexism, ageism, etc.) in hospitals and health care systems. This process is designed to support hospitals at every stage of the journey. Some hospitals are just beginning, developing a strategic plan and looking for data to collect, while others have institutionalized equity through policy and practice. Some are collaborating with a wide range of community stakeholders to advance health equity in their ecosystem. Regardless of your starting point, AHA invites you to use the Action Planners to mobilize your leadership, governing body, staff and community toward institutional change. Discover opportunities to change policy and practices that will institutionalize equity in your organization.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <p><a href="/system/files/media/file/2022/01/equity-roadmap-tap-diverse-leadership-affirming.pdf" target="_blank" title="Click here to download the complete Diverse Representation in Leadership and Governance: Affirming Transformation Action Planner PDF."><img alt="Diverse Representation in Leadership and Governance: Affirming Transformation Action Planner page 1." data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="49b9bac6-1d67-40d1-8203-f0a6fea4f70c" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Page-1-equity-roadmap-tap-diverse-leadership-affirming.png" width="4180" height="3230"></a></p> </div> </div> </div> Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:20:11 -0600 Trustee <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8"> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>We want to welcome you as you take on another part of the Health Equity Transformation journey. Now that you have received your HETA profile, the fun work of organizational change begins. We have heard from many hospitals and health systems that the greatest challenge is moving forward beyond the proclamation that equity is essential to patient safety and equitable hospital organizations. We have developed this action planner tool to support you in moving across the transformation continuum.</p> <p>Once you have studied and discussed your profile, you will find the links to the appropriate levers that correspond with advancing to your next position on the continuum. As part of this process, you are invited to participate in a community of learners on the equity journey in hospitals and health care systems. Sharing your innovative policies and practices, learnings, questions and accomplishments are some of the features of the Equity Roadmap Journey Community.</p> <p>As your hospital travels across the continuum we have outlined primary deliverables of each position on the continuum below:</p> <p><img alt="Tranformation Continuum. Primary Deliverables: Exploring—Strategic Planning: Develop strategic plans. Committing—Implementation Planning: Develop implementation plan of strategy. Immersing—Leadership Accountability: CEO and management teams integrate learning DEI framework as Standard Operating Procedures. Affirming—Institutionalization: Policies and practices are assessed and monitored for sustaining DEI progress toward goals. 5. Transforming—Investing in the Community Ecosystem: Collaborate with a wide range of representative stakeholders to promote DEI in the communities hospital serves." data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9e838e87-ac4c-4fd3-824a-36613b15c142" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/TAP-Transformation-Continuum_0.png" width="2875" height="824"></p> <p>Action Planning is a critical step in collectively advancing equity and dismantling structural barriers (e.g., racism, sexism, ageism, etc.) in hospitals and health care systems. This process is designed to support hospitals at every stage of the journey. Some hospitals are just beginning, developing a strategic plan and looking for data to collect, while others have institutionalized equity through policy and practice. Some are collaborating with a wide range of community stakeholders to advance health equity in their ecosystem. Regardless of your starting point, AHA invites you to use the Action Planners to mobilize your leadership, governing body, staff and community toward institutional change. Discover opportunities to change policy and practices that will institutionalize equity in your organization.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <p><a href="/system/files/media/file/2022/01/equity-roadmap-tap-diverse-leadership-immersing.pdf" target="_blank" title="Click here to download the complete Diverse Representation in Leadership and Governance: Immersing Transformation Action Planner PDF."><img alt="Diverse Representation in Leadership and Governance: Immersing Transformation Action Planner page 1." data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="7e6aaef4-592a-4bcc-9031-c8375743e088" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Page-1-equity-roadmap-tap-diverse-leadership-immersing.png" width="3300" height="2550"></a></p> </div> </div> </div> Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:08:09 -0600 Trustee <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8"> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>We want to welcome you as you take on another part of the Health Equity Transformation journey. Now that you have received your HETA profile, the fun work of organizational change begins. We have heard from many hospitals and health systems that the greatest challenge is moving forward beyond the proclamation that equity is essential to patient safety and equitable hospital organizations. We have developed this action planner tool to support you in moving across the transformation continuum.</p> <p>Once you have studied and discussed your profile, you will find the links to the appropriate levers that correspond with advancing to your next position on the continuum. As part of this process, you are invited to participate in a community of learners on the equity journey in hospitals and health care systems. Sharing your innovative policies and practices, learnings, questions and accomplishments are some of the features of the Equity Roadmap Journey Community.</p> <p>As your hospital travels across the continuum we have outlined primary deliverables of each position on the continuum below:</p> <p><img alt="Tranformation Continuum. Primary Deliverables: Exploring—Strategic Planning: Develop strategic plans. Committing—Implementation Planning: Develop implementation plan of strategy. Immersing—Leadership Accountability: CEO and management teams integrate learning DEI framework as Standard Operating Procedures. Affirming—Institutionalization: Policies and practices are assessed and monitored for sustaining DEI progress toward goals. 5. Transforming—Investing in the Community Ecosystem: Collaborate with a wide range of representative stakeholders to promote DEI in the communities hospital serves." data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9e838e87-ac4c-4fd3-824a-36613b15c142" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/TAP-Transformation-Continuum_0.png" width="2875" height="824"></p> <p>Action Planning is a critical step in collectively advancing equity and dismantling structural barriers (e.g., racism, sexism, ageism, etc.) in hospitals and health care systems. This process is designed to support hospitals at every stage of the journey. Some hospitals are just beginning, developing a strategic plan and looking for data to collect, while others have institutionalized equity through policy and practice. Some are collaborating with a wide range of community stakeholders to advance health equity in their ecosystem. Regardless of your starting point, AHA invites you to use the Action Planners to mobilize your leadership, governing body, staff and community toward institutional change. Discover opportunities to change policy and practices that will institutionalize equity in your organization.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <p><a href="/system/files/media/file/2022/01/equity-roadmap-tap-diverse-leadership-committing.pdf" target="_blank" title="Click here to download the complete Diverse Representation in Leadership and Governance: Committing Transformation Action Planner PDF."><img alt="Diverse Representation in Leadership and Governance: Committing Transformation Action Planner page 1." data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="deffa355-2adf-4d6e-8bab-68d3587cc6fc" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Page-1-equity-roadmap-tap-diverse-leadership-committing.png" width="3806" height="2941"></a></p> </div> </div> </div> Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:55:08 -0600 Trustee <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8"> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>We want to welcome you as you take on another part of the Health Equity Transformation journey. Now that you have received your HETA profile, the fun work of organizational change begins. We have heard from many hospitals and health systems that the greatest challenge is moving forward beyond the proclamation that equity is essential to patient safety and equitable hospital organizations. We have developed this action planner tool to support you in moving across the transformation continuum.</p> <p>Once you have studied and discussed your profile, you will find the links to the appropriate levers that correspond with advancing to your next position on the continuum. As part of this process, you are invited to participate in a community of learners on the equity journey in hospitals and health care systems. Sharing your innovative policies and practices, learnings, questions and accomplishments are some of the features of the Equity Roadmap Journey Community.</p> <p>As your hospital travels across the continuum we have outlined primary deliverables of each position on the continuum below:</p> <p><img alt="Tranformation Continuum. Primary Deliverables: Exploring—Strategic Planning: Develop strategic plans. Committing—Implementation Planning: Develop implementation plan of strategy. Immersing—Leadership Accountability: CEO and management teams integrate learning DEI framework as Standard Operating Procedures. Affirming—Institutionalization: Policies and practices are assessed and monitored for sustaining DEI progress toward goals. 5. Transforming—Investing in the Community Ecosystem: Collaborate with a wide range of representative stakeholders to promote DEI in the communities hospital serves." data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9e838e87-ac4c-4fd3-824a-36613b15c142" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/TAP-Transformation-Continuum_0.png" width="2875" height="824"></p> <p>Action Planning is a critical step in collectively advancing equity and dismantling structural barriers (e.g., racism, sexism, ageism, etc.) in hospitals and health care systems. This process is designed to support hospitals at every stage of the journey. Some hospitals are just beginning, developing a strategic plan and looking for data to collect, while others have institutionalized equity through policy and practice. Some are collaborating with a wide range of community stakeholders to advance health equity in their ecosystem. Regardless of your starting point, AHA invites you to use the Action Planners to mobilize your leadership, governing body, staff and community toward institutional change. Discover opportunities to change policy and practices that will institutionalize equity in your organization.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <p><a href="/system/files/media/file/2022/01/equity-roadmap-tap-diverse-leadership-exploring.pdf" target="_blank" title="Click here to download the complete Diverse Representation in Leadership and Governance: Exploring Transformation Action Planner PDF."><img alt="Diverse Representation in Leadership and Governance: Exploring Transformation Action Planner page 1." data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="8135dec2-e281-4c3d-836e-7824c0ade28f" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Page-1-equity-roadmap-tap-diverse-leadership-exploring.png" width="3300" height="2550"></a></p> </div> </div> </div> Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:14:17 -0600 Trustee /node/681718 <p>This guidebook offers a section on why investing in communities is necessary for the benefit of the overall health of local populations and in encouraging accountability. The guidebook encourages the involvement of leaders in the local community.</p> Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:12:45 -0600 Trustee /node/681698 <p>This tool provides the do's and don'ts on the level involvement of the chief executive be in the recruitment process. While the board is ultimately responsible for recruiting and selecting new board members, the chief executive also plays an important role in the process. Including information from Recruiting a Stronger Board, this resource explains when CEOs should be involved and when they need to take a step back.</p> Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:01:48 -0600 Trustee