Guides and Reports

American Hospital Association guides and reports for members and the health care field.

This resource is a guide to using impact analysis tools. It is designed to help planners and strategists at all levels understand how different drivers of change, such as COVID-19, social determinants of health and economic changes interact. Users will learn how to use different tools to quickly…
The PowerPoint presentation, Futurescan 2021, features highlights from the latest edition of Futurescan, one of the industry's most respected health care trends forecasts. Ready for immediate use at your organization, you can employ this presentation tool for staff, leadership or boards.
This report offers key considerations drawn from the forum of expert panelists who are effectively planning ahead to facilitate financial recovery with a strategic focus, including capital strategy, expense management, growth and investment towards a new future. 
Mentoring can make a world of difference in your career. Learn how one SHSMD member, Megan Stinchcomb, Marketing Strategy Manager at Nemours Children’s Health System, learned invaluable new soft skills through SHSMD mentoring.
A collection of resources for emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing the new issues for health care strategists.
SHSMD members play an integral role in effectively communicating information while providing leadership during a crisis.
Learn how hospitals and health systems successfully used telehealth to decrease transfers, time spent in the ICU, average cost of care and patient travel time, greatly improving the value of the care they deliver. This free report also offers expert advice on how to start and sustain a telehealth…
The PowerPoint presentation, Futurescan 2020, features highlights from the latest edition of Futurescan, one of the industry's most respected health care trends forecasts. Ready for immediate use at your organization, you can employ this presentation tool for staff, leadership or boards.
Keeping you at the forefront today for the best patient-friendly solution building tomorrow, SHSMD has developed a resource digest on the hot trend of retail health.
Transformation is more than change; it is a change that reshapes entire organizations and sectors. The same forces that transformed retail, movies, books, music and the workplace are exerting their power on hospitals and health systems. Health care executives who have led successful transformation…