American Hospital Association
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1 N. Franklin Chicago, IL 60606-3421 IL Tel. 312-422-3000 Fax 312-422-4796 |
Type: Private - Not-for-Profit
On the web:
http://www.aha.org
The American Hospital Association (AHA) represents more than 5,000 hospitals and other health care providers and some 38,000 individuals from various health care fields. The AHA acts as an advocate in national health care policy development and provides services to its members, such as helping hospitals and other health care providers form networks for patient care, conducting research and development projects on the structuring and delivery of health care services, and producing educational programs and publications. The AHA Resource Center maintains an extensive collection of books and documents relating to hospitals and health care. AHA was founded in 1898.
Officers:
Chairman: Richard P. de Filippi
President, CEO, and Director: Richard J. (Rich) Umbdenstock
SVP and CFO: John Evans
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American Hospital Association
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| Founded | 1898 |
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| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C. |
| Origins | The Association of Hospital Superintendents of the United States and Canada |
| Key people | Thomas M. Priselac, Chairman Richard Umbdenstock, President & CEO[1] |
| Area served | health care |
| Services | health care |
| Members | 5,708[2] |
| Website | American Hospital Association |
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is an organization that promotes the quality provision of health care by hospitals and health care networks through such efforts as promoting effective public policy and providing information related to health care and health administration to health care providers and the public. Founded in 1898 and hosting offices in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C., the AHA hosts a Resource Center with more than 47,000 books on health care (some services fee based) and maintains an extensive, frequently updated Health Planning and Administration (HEALTH) database, which provides information related to health care unrelated to clinical treatment.[3][4] More than 5,600 organizations and 41,000 individuals are members of the AHA.[3]
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History
In 1870, there were only about a hundred general hospitals in the United States, but the institution was growing rapidly.[5] Hospital administrators formed an organization called "The Association of Hospital Superintendents of the United States and Canada", which held its first meeting in 1899 in Cleveland, Ohio, in which city seven of the eight superintendents in attendance were based.[5] The organization was promoted by publisher Del Sutton, whose journal The National Hospital Sanitarium Record was adopted by the new group in 1900, gradually coming under control of the organization until it was replaced by the organization's own publication, The Modern Hospital.[6]
In 1906, the growing organization adopted its present name, with membership reaching 450 in 1908.[7] 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 laypersons representing a heavy majority.[8]
Personal membership groups
Personal membership groups (PMGs) are affiliated societies which fall under the umbrella of the AHA:
- American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE)
- American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services (ASHES)
- American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration (ASHHRA)
- American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM)
- Association for Community Health Improvement (ACHI)
- Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE)[9]
- 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 Consumer Advocacy (SHCA)
- Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development (SHSMD)[10]
See also
References
- ^ Richard Umbdenstock Bio, accessed December 22, 2010
- ^ http://www.aha.org/aha/resource-center/Statistics-and-Studies/fast-facts.html
- ^ a b "American Hospital Association - AHA". healthfinder.gov. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. http://www.healthfinder.gov/orgs/HR0654.htm. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
- ^ Goodman, Clifford; Council on Health Care Technology (Institute of Medicine), Information Panel. (1988). Medical Technology Assessment Directory: A Pilot Reference to Organizations, Assessments, and Information Resources. National Academies Press. p. 524. ISBN 0-309-03829-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=6BXQq92hri4C&pg=PA524&lpg=PA524&dq=Health+Planning+and+Administration+database&source=web&ots=rQBsiR7DoV&sig=PbX4alDpz3YMal13u6_RQho0VRI&hl=en&ei=odGWSe2rO53etgez-N21Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA524,M1.
- ^ a b Vogel, Morris J. (1989). "Managing medicine: creating a profession of hospital administration in the United States, 1895-1915". In Granshaw, Lindsay; Roy Porter. The Hospital in History. Routledge. p. 244. ISBN 0-415-05603-9.
- ^ Vogel, 245.
- ^ Vogel, 244, 245.
- ^ Vogel, 252.
- ^ http://www.ahe.org/
- ^ "American Hospital Association: Personal Membership Groups". aha.org. http://www.aha.org/aha/member-center/pmg-index.html. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
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