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HAP's annual Achievement Awards honor hospitals and health systems for their innovation, creativity, and commitment to patient care. The Achievement Awards showcase and share member hospitals’ and health systems’ successful programs and best practices. This year, WellSpan Health received the Workforce Innovators Award for its project that leveraged artificial intelligence to transform health care delivery.

HAP’s 2025 Workforce Summit was held today in Harrisburg, with an opening keynote and a conference focused on strategies for health care administrators to develop and support their teams. The event showcased innovative approaches to developing new career pathways, attracting and retaining talent, and training the next generation of providers.

Pennsylvania would lose hundreds of thousands of jobs and tens of billions in economic impact if Congress enacts sweeping cuts to Medicaid spending, an analysis by the American Hospital Association found.

The state House today passed legislation to increase the Pennsylvania attorney general’s oversight of health care-related transactions involving for-profit and investor-owned entities.

The tug of war between potential cost savings via cuts and preserving Medicaid reveal ramifications to maternal health. A new report by The Commonwealth Fund finds that cuts would erode maternal health access, quality, and equity and leave providers at risk of closure.

HAP's annual Achievement Awards honor hospitals and health systems for their innovation, creativity, and commitment to patient care. The Achievement Awards showcase and share member hospitals’ and health systems’ successful programs and best practices.

HAP and the Pennsylvania Provider Advocacy Coalition (PAPAC) convened a Medicaid briefing on Wednesday for staff and lawmakers from over 40 legislative offices, reflecting bipartisan interest in Medicaid's critical role within Pennsylvania's health care system.

COVID-19 is not the viral threat of 2020, but it is still important to monitor the latest public health developments.

The House Health Committee today advanced a bill that would provide the Pennsylvania attorney general with additional oversight of health care-related transactions involving for-profit and investor-owned entities.

The impact of workplace violence in hospitals is far reaching and costly, according to a new report released by the American Hospital Association (AHA).