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AHA News
AHA News Now
Health Facilities Management
Hospitals & Health Networks
H&HN Weekly Newsletter
Materials Management in Health Care
Trustee
If you would like to subscribe to: AHA News, Health Facilities Management, Hospitals & Health Networks, Materials Management or Trustee, please read the subscription directions below for each publication.
The biweekly newspaper for AHA hospital and health system CEOs.
AHA News reports on the latest regulatory and legislative developments, as well as the quality-improvement and leadership trends that are shaping and influencing the hospital and health system field. Readers get in-depth reporting on the issues and challenges facing hospital and health system leaders today. The reporting on the Washington political scene keeps hospital executives informed about what's happening on Capitol Hill and inside federal regulatory agencies. We provide the latest news from the White House and a host of other governmental and quasi-governmental agencies whose policies exert a daily impact on how hospitals are run.
AHA News Now is the afternoon news bulletin read by "C-suite" senior management in hospitals. More than 85% of hospital CEOs read this daily e-mail briefing of the day's most important stories. AHA News Now reports on the leading health care news in a quick-read, news brief style. These credible, sharply edited briefs cover current breaking issues and policy changes that affect hospitals, health systems and those involved in the market.
Delivered via e-mail and placed on the AHA News Web site at about 5 p.m. ET each day, AHA News Now's 90-second read keeps readers informed and abreast of the issues that affect them most.
Health Facilities Management is the nation's leading and most trusted magazine for those passionate about designing, building and maintaining safe, efficient and sustainable health care environments.
Each issue of HFM highlights hospital design and equipment trends, codes and standards, environmental services, regulatory updates, construction news, profiles on new facilities, case studies and new-product information. HFM is the premier publication for specialized coverage in these areas:
- Facility planning, construction and renovation
- Interior design
- Furnishings
- Engineering
- Energy management
- HVAC & plumbing systems
- Lighting
- Medical waste & environmental management
- Housekeeping & laundry services
- Security & fire safety
- Infection control
- Medical office management
- Signage
- Parking maintenance & grounds keeping
- Emerging technologies
Hospitals & Health Networks chronicles the values and ideas that drive the new era in health care. H&HN is the place leaders turn for new insights and to recharge their imagination. H&HN stands for stewardship, creativity and results. It delivers short, high-impact reporting and analyses on trends and issues that interest health care executives and emerging leaders. H&HN covers the trends that drive strategic decision-making in health care provider and payer institutions across the country.
H&HN Weekly
H&HN Weekly is a new weekly e-newsletter from the editors of Hospitals & Health Networks. H&HN Weekly has exclusive articles, analyses and columns that will inform, inspire and challenge senior health care executives. The roster of respected contributors includes such well-known writers as Joe Flower, Emily Friedman, Ian Morrison, Dan Beckham, and David Weber. Many well-known CEOs are also contributors. Two articles are delivered each Tuesday in a concise, easy-to-read format.
Materials Management in Health Care is the only publication focusing on how hospitals are working with their supply chain partners to deliver safe, effective and efficient care. MMHC provides the most thorough coverage of the various health care settings and the solutions they're implementing to address critical challenges in maintaining supply levels, managing supply costs, reducing hospital-associated infections, improving OR performance and safely sterilizing surgical instruments.
Together with its content partners like the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management, the International Association of Healthcare Central Service Materiel Management and others, MMHC brings readers authoritative content and exclusive industry surveys.
Trustee provides health care system and hospital governing boards with the information they need to provide leadership and strategic direction that improves community health and contributes to the financial stability of their institutions.
Trustee is the only journal serving the members of hospital boards. It alerts trustees and board members to trends that have an impact on their organizations. Articles advise readers how to be better decision-makers and how to focus on collaborative efforts with the major groups and organizations in their community that will affect their health care institution's goal of improving community health.
Trustee provides guidance on the strategic issues CEOs must address. These issues include finance, information technology, government and industry standards and regulations, quality of patient care, executive compensation, physician relations and recruitment, managed care, and strategic planning
