The American Hospital Association (AHA) published their 2025 Advocacy Agenda.
The goal of the agenda is to improve overall care. AHA announced the agenda will focus on the following healthcare challenges in 2025:
· Care accessibility and quality
· Solidifying the workforce
· Equity
· Cost
· “Healthcare system resiliency and innovation in care delivery”
The agenda includes goals specific to laboratories. AHA aims to “protect access to clinical laboratory services in hospital-based laboratories” and maintain the right of hospital and health system clinical laboratories to develop laboratory-developed tests (LDT), “to address unmet patient needs and improve existing diagnostic tests without imposing burdensome and unnecessary regulatory oversight.”
