Rick Pollack

President and CEO, AHA

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Rick Pollack is president and CEO of the American Hospital Association (AHA), the nation’s largest hospital and health care system membership organization with nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health care systems, networks, and other providers of care.

Articles

Cybersecurity, Advocacy & Public Policy

Keeping Up Our Guard to Protect Patients’ Privacy and Access to Safe Care

Cyber criminals are probing the defenses of health care providers every second of every day. Health care continues to be the number one targeted critical infrastructure sector as bad actors attempt to breach patients’ private data, phish for sensitive information and attempt to extort ransomware payments by disabling information and medical technology systems.

COVID-19: Vaccines and Therapeutics, United Against the Flu

Getting Vaccinated to Help Protect Yourself, Your Family and Your Community

As we move into fall and winter, we know the viruses that cause respiratory disease will usually circulate more heavily in communities. Already, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said it expects this year to be similar to last year when we saw higher than normal numbers of hospitalizations from COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and flu as surges in cases from the “tripledemic” presented many challenges for our nation’s hospitals and care teams.