The American Hospital Association (AHA)  is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, their patients and communities. Hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and individual members come together to form the AHA.

Through representation and advocacy activities, AHA ensures that members’ perspectives and needs are heard and addressed in national health policy development, legislative and regulatory debates and judicial matters. Our advocacy efforts include the legislative and regulatory branches and include the legislative and regulatory arenas.

The Health Forum  provides communications, information, education and research products and services that advance leadership for health. These services empower health care providers, suppliers, payers and consumers with new knowledge and learning toward the advancement of organizational leadership, market leadership, clinical and medical leadership and community leadership. The Health Forum was created in the fall of 1998 through the union of The Healthcare Forum and the American Hospital Association's publishing and data and information subsidiaries.