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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.

A new report shows hospitals in the U.S. continue to improve patient safety, while caring for patients with increasingly significant health care needs.

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.

The cost of data breaches declined last year, but the rise of artificial intelligence is creating new challenges.

The Pennsylvania Insurance Department released the proposed rates for insurance companies offering plans on the state’s individual and small group marketplaces.

There is a growing need to support mental health and behavioral health care across Pennsylvania.

Changes to the 340B payment model would reduce access to care and jeopardize hospitals’ financial well-being if imposed, according to a new survey.

Pennsylvania (July 23, 2025)—Leaders from associations representing Pennsylvania health care providers and businesses released the following statement today about implications that the Pennsylvania Superior Court’s ruling in Hagans v. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania will have on access to care and economic competitiveness across the commonwealth.

It’s clear that mothers benefit from obstetric care but hospital-based services, particularly in rural areas, are getting harder to find, according to a study from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Fewer than half the commonwealth’s acute care hospitals are operating with margins necessary for long-term stability and more than a third continue to operate at a loss, according to data released today by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4).