your complete resource

As part of the American Hospital Association (AHA), the leading advocate for the nation’s hospitals,AHA Solutions is committed to helping you achieve the highest level of operational efficiencies todeliver the best possible care to patients and communities. With over 30 years of working knowledge,understanding, and experience in solving hospital issues, our mission is to be the trusted resourcefor education, information, and products and services that foster operational excellence in hospitals.

AHA Solutions is Your Complete ResourceAs a subsidiary of the AHA, we convene people with like interests for knowledge sharing, centeredon timely information and research.

EducationAHA Solutions provides free, in-depth information and practical examples about the most importantissues facing you and your hospital. Through live convening meetings, roundtables, webinars, orother targeted events, the Signature Learning SeriesTM offers invaluable education to hospitalexecutives, showcasing cutting-edge ideas.

Market AnalysisWith input from hospital executives, advisory committees, and our board ofdirectors, we identify significant issues affecting hospitals, perform ourproprietary AHA Signature Due Diligence ProcessTM, assess the market, and award the exclusive AHA Endorsement to selected products and services. We can help streamline your purchasing decisions, freeing up staff time, saving you money, driving down costs and eliminating waste. We provide support to hospitals to achieve operational efficiencies, enabling them to move toward the objectives detailed in the 6 IOM (Institute of Medicine) Aims: patient safety, patient centeredness, efficiency, effectiveness,timeliness, and equity.

Rely on AHA Solutions as your resource: a place where knowledge can be accessed, solutions arerecommended, ideas shared, and questions answered. Our information is offered as a free benefitto all hospitals.

AHA Solutions’ mission is to bea resource to hospitals pursuingoperational excellence. Issueswe focus on include:

Access to Capital

Asset Management

Bad Debt/Charity Care

Best-in-class Benefits

Capacity

Emergency Preparedness/BusinessContinuity

Employee Engagement

Financial Management

IT Informatics

Mobility & Access to Information

OR & Staff Scheduling

Patient Engagement

Patient Safety

Patient & Staff Communication

Patient Throughput

Performance Management

Physician and Staff Relations

Physician Alignment Strategies

Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC)

Program Issues

Security and Compliance

Talent Management

Talent Recruitment and Retention

Products and services that have

undergone our due diligence

process and have earned the

exclusive AHA Endorsement:

RFID Wi-Fi Patient, Staff, & Asset Tracking;

Wander Prevention

Accident Insurance for Volunteers& Student Nurses

Health Information Exchange, Voice, Data Networking

& Wireless Services

Concierge Services

Whole Life & Disability, Voluntary CriticalIllness & Accident Insurance

Data Center Hosting Services

Background Screening& Drug Testing

Wireless Networking Products& Secure Messaging

Wayfinding

Interpretation & Translation Services

Selection Solutions & Services

Medication Reconciliation Software

Safe Patient Handling

Retirement Plans

Diversified is a Registered Investment Advisor

Clinical Revenue Cycle Management

Emergency Notification Systems

Smart Card Solution

Interactive Patient Care

Employee PerformanceManagement Software

Employee Engagement/Opinion Survey Instruments &

Consulting, Physician Engagement& Exit Surveys

AHA-Endorsed Solutions

Identity Theft Protection, Compliance & Data Breach

Integrated Planning& Capital Markets Solutions

Patient Identity& Financial Assessment Solutions

Disaster Readiness& Incident Command

Enterprise DocumentManagement Software

User Activity Monitoring

IT Strategic Consulting Services

Policy & Procedure ManagementSoftware & Services

Notification & Reminder Solutions Suite

Email Archiving Software& Desktop Virtualization

Incident Reporting & Management

Laboratory Information System

Surgical Information Systems,Surgery & Management

Behavioral Assessment Solutions

Equipment Asset Management Program

Professional Liability Claims& Litigation Management

Kiosks & Patient Portal Solutions

Credentials Verification Solutions

RFID IR Patient, Staff,& Asset Tracking

Immediate ResponseCommunication Systems

Integrated Environmental Servicesfor Healthcare

American Hospital Association Solutions, Inc.155 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 400Chicago, Illinois 60606-1725www.aha-solutions.org

AHA Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of the American Hospital Association, iscompensated for the use of the AHA marks and for its assistance in marketingendorsed products and services. By agreement, pricing of endorsed products andservices may not be increased by the providers to reflect fees paid to the AHA.

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AHA Solutions, Inc. is a resource to hospitals pursuing operational excellence. As anAmerican Hospital Association (AHA) member service, AHA Solutions collaborates withhospital leaders and market consultants to conduct product due diligence and identifysolutions to hospital challenges in the areas of finance and operations, human resources, patient flow and technology. AHA Solutions provides related marketplace analytics and education to support product decision-making. As a subsidiary of the AHA, the organization convenes people with like interests for knowledge sharing centered on timely information and research.

AHA Solutions is proud to reinvest its profits in the AHA mission: creating healthier communities.

For more information on our

AHA-Endorsed solutions and

the AHA Solutions Signature

Learning Series, please visit

www.aha-solutions.org or

call 800.242.4677.