HealthLeaders Media March 31, 2021
John Commins

AHA President and CEO Rick J. Pollack tells President Biden that the COVID-19 pandemic has crippled the nation’s hospitals.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

– AHA estimates that the nation’s hospitals lost more than $320 billion in 2020 and would lose as much as $120 billion in 2021 because of the pandemic and the ensuing shutdown of nonessential healthcare services.

– Pollack is asking the Biden administration to earmark funding for hospital upgrades, improving and expanding broadband access for telehealth, securing supply lines, and bolstering the nation’s healthcare workforce.

The nation’s hospitals want a share of the $2 trillion infrastructure plan put forward on Wednesday by President Joseph R. Biden.

In a letter Wednesday to the president, American Hospital Association President and...

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