News Releases, Reports, and Resources for Media

The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) is proud to honor the winners of the 2020 Achievement Awards. The winning initiatives celebrate hospitals leveraging partnerships and inventive ideas to improve patient care and outcomes and invest in the specific health needs of communities.

The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) today launched a new campaign to inform Pennsylvanians about the safety measures in place in their hospitals and encourage them to get the care they need to be healthy. Two digital ads—available in English and Spanish—highlight the ways that Pennsylvania’s hospitals remain committed to providing safe, high-quality health care—and important precautions they are taking to protect patients and health care workers from getting COVID-19.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf yesterday signed two HAP-supported measures critical to improving the safety of health care workers in the commonwealth’s hospitals.

Today, The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania held a media call with two regional health system leaders to discuss their response to COVID-19 and its financial impacts.

Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Department of Health announced that, effective July 8, it will change vendors for its health care emergency management coordination. The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) president and CEO Andy Carter released the following statement in recognition of the HAP emergency management team.