American Hospital Association releases 2025-2027 Strategic Plan; plan focuses on advocacy, thought leadership, knowledge exchange, and change initiatives

The AHA today released its 2025-2027 Strategic Plan, approved by the AHA Board of Trustees in November. The plan is rooted in four core disciplines — advocacy and representation, thought leadership, knowledge exchange, and agents of change. It also includes nine principles that serve as the foundation of the AHA’s work and strategies to help the field make progress on its mission of advancing health in America. View the 2025-2027 Strategic PlanAmerican Hospital Association 2025-2027 Strategic Plan Mission and Vision MISSION: To advance the health of all individuals and communities. The AHA leads, represents and serves hospitals, health systems and other related organizations that are accountable to communities and committed to equitable care and health improvement for all. VISION: A just society of healthy communities, where all individuals reach their highest potential for health. AHA’s Strategic Plan 2025-2027 The AHA’s Strategic Plan is rooted in four primary disciplines, which define our approach to providing value to members and advancing our goals. • Advocacy and Representation • Thought Leadership • Knowledge Exchange • Agents of Change The illustration below demonstrates how advocacy and representation are at the core of our work. We use them to advance our strategic priorities in Congress, with the Administration, in courts, in the media, in public opinion and beyond. Advocacy and Representation Thought Knowledge Agents of Leadership Exchange Change While advocacy is a core discipline for our work, the AHA provides value, guidance and foresight by advancing the field’s priorities through thought leadership, knowledge exchange and as agents of change. Thought Knowledge Agents of Leadership Exchange Change Utilize policy design, Facilitate the exchange Establish a shared research, partnerships of information, position and related and innovations best practices and actions, including to accelerate innovation to advance positioning members improvements in the field. for effective advocacy, health care delivery to enact change and and health equity. define outcomes. Strategic Principles The AHA guides our work plans using a series of fundamental guidelines — or principles — to serve as the foundation for advancing our mission and reaching our vision. These strategic principles direct operational decisions, goals and organization-wide metrics. The health care ecosystem should … 1. Provide timely access to the full continuum of health care services. 2. Provide coverage and care that is affordable. 3. Provide equitable care and achieve equitable outcomes. 4. Be safe, high quality, reliable and evidence based. 5. Be sustainably staffed with a ready workforce and safe workplaces. 6. Be economically viable and appropriately resourced. 7. Be innovative, transformative, environmentally conscious and data driven. 8. Be committed to coordination and collaboration across all stakeholders. 9. Be person-centered and oriented around the individual. Strategies STRATEGIES PRINCIPLES Safe S E a u c s o n ta n P d in o e A H a m b i C rs c A ig l c y a In o o c f E e fo q h n s u s rd i Q S lly n o t o r - d c a V i t b a a u l b b a e le l l ff i i e a v e n b a n t a t le iv t e e ity d e e r d ed Advance quality and patient safety through the X X X Patient Safety Initiative. Create meaningful progress toward care transformation and demonstrate improvements in X X X X X X accessibility, affordability, coordinated continuum and economic viability. Improve and protect federal funding, including X X X ACA subsidies. Hold commercial insurers accountable and X X X X prevent insurance barriers to care. Scale and spread successful new care models as X X X X X X X X X designed by members. Accelerate the utilization of technology to X X X X X X X enhance the workforce. Enhance public trust and confidence. X X X X X X Improve the consumer experience. X X X X X X X Address opportunities for care improvement utilizing the rapidly emerging promise of novel X X X X X X drug therapies and developing technology for diagnostics and therapeutics. Protect the 340B Drug Pricing Program. X X X X X X Strategies STRATEGIES PRINCIPLES Safe S E a u c n s o d ta n P A H in o c A ig a m e C r b i s c f l c I o o h y a e fo E l n o n q y n r - s u Q S l s rd u ib a it a ta V o d c ia v i e b a n n t a t le i t e l b a l e l b e le i f t f y ed ve e r d ed Address care disparities and health inequities. X X X X X X X X Mitigate vulnerabilities to members’ ability to provide 365/24/7 care, e.g., supply chain X X X X X X weaknesses, cyber threats, third-party targets, etc. Establish health care as a destination career. X X X X X X Scale disruptive collaborations (e.g., Civica Rx, Truven) and establish unique partnership X X X X models with other stakeholders in the health care ecosystem. Address public and policymaker understanding of the complexities of the cost of care and medical X X X X debt. Optimize the Common Health Coalition* work X X X X plan to contribute to AHA principles. Create new bridges between separate but interdependent pieces of the care delivery X X X X X X infrastructure. Scale competencies in support of population segments with unique needs, e.g., aging, X X X X X maternal and child, behavioral and mental health. *The Common Health Coalition is the coalition formed by the AHA, American Medical Association, America’s Health Insurance Plans, Association for Community Health Plans and Kaiser Permanente to make improvements to the intersection between the health care delivery and public health infrastructures. for more information.