Tackling Disparities More Important Than Ever.

Hospitals are redoubling their efforts to identify and eliminate disparities in care. The #123forEquity Pledge to Act Campaign is one way you can get involved.

Hospitals need community conversations to ensure essential services remain available.

Our nation is in the midst of unprecedented change, and healthcare is in the thick of it. To better serve the needs of individuals we are placing greater emphasis on improving the patient experience; we are focused like a laser beam on enhancing quality and patient safety; and we are striving to increase value and make care affordable.

'Everybody feels they have to redo or dust off their strategic plan'.

Over the past decade, the top leadership of the nation's hospitals formulated their business plans on the twin premises that more people would have comprehensive health insurance and that the reimbursement system was moving inexorably toward value-based payment. Modern Healthcare reporter Steven Ross Johnson recently asked American Hospital Association CEO Rick Pollack what impact the election will have on those basic assumptions. The following is an edited transcript.

Seeing the Big Picture.

Rick Pollack, the American Hospital Association's new president and CEO, shares his perspective on advocacy.

Your hospital's best advocate. When board members tell their hospitals' and communities stories, legislators are likely to listen.

When trustees tell their hospital's story, legislators will listen.

We care, we vote.

Election day is fast approaching and the debate over the federal deficit is heating up. No one can do a better job of explaining the challenges in health care than you.