The Association represents hospitals, healthcare networks and their patients and communities. Extensive information on current Acts, Congressional budgets and news of interest to the healthcare industry.

Information on how the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 is hurting America's hospitals.

Hospital conversion in the marketplace and the policy world. The growing trend towards mergers and acquisitions in the hospital industry.

Organization that gathers safety data from hospitals and makes recommendations to improve patient safety in hospitals.

Represents the nations's health care system as advocate to hospitals, research, and education. Most members are major teaching hospitals or academic health science centers.

A coalition of private safety-net urban hospitals who have joined to assure adequate reimbursement from public payers such as Medicaid & Medicare.

An organization of health insurance companies that is promoting Computerized Physician Order Entry to hospitals as a way to decrease medication errors.

What are people saying about hospitals in the news and print ads? Southern California-area hospitals graded by the public.