Health Forum offers a wide variety of information publications devoted to improving the quality of health care in our communities.
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.
AHA News
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
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 provides summaries of the leading health care news in a quick-read, newsbrief-style format. 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
Health Facilities Management is the only magazine that provides comprehensive coverage of the challenges facing health care facility management. The editorial covers topics on day-to-day facility operations. Each issue highlights codes and standards, regulatory updates, compliance news, profiles on new facilities, current affairs, and new-product information.
HFM is the leading publication in its field. It is published in cooperation with the two leading industry societies: the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) and the American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services (ASHES). Both societies are personal membership groups of the American Hospital Association.
Health care professionals view HFM as the primary journal to keep current on areas of interest such as: building design, construction, renovation, plant operations, engineering, biomedical engineering, maintenance, environmental services, energy management, furniture and flooring, safety/security/fire protection, patient transportation, etc. Since the editorial focus of HFM is solely health care, readers rely on this journal for its unique coverage.
Hospitals & Health Networks
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
Materials Management in Health Care serves department managers who are responsible for purchasing and managing health care supplies and equipment. Materials Management educates these managers on the cost-effective purchase, management and use of supplies, equipment and resources. It also provides information on infection control, operating room equipment, sterilization and infection control, product evaluation, distribution systems, state and federal regulatory developments, medical technology, total quality management and other topics related to the delivery of top-quality patient care. Materials Management bridges the information gap between materials management, central service, administration, and clinicians and delivers valuable information on infection control issues.
Materials Management is published with the cooperation of the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM) and the American Society for Healthcare Central Service Professionals (ASHCSP).
Trustee
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
