The Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) offers three categories of membership: Institutional, Associate and Individual Student.
Institutional Membership
Institutional Members of the FAH are the nation’s leading tax-paying hospitals and health systems, which offer traditional acute care, ambulatory care, psychiatric care, long-term acute care, rehabilitative care, and skilled nursing facility care, among other services. Membership criteria for Institutional Members include accreditation by The Joint Commission (TJC) or the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), or by Medicare or Medicaid certification, and duly licensed to operate in the state in which it is located. Currently, tax-paying hospitals represent about 20% of all hospitals in the United States.
Associate Membership
The FAH Associate Members include hospital associations, medical societies, law firms and foundations; suppliers other than management companies, of services and/or products to the health care industry; and management companies that do not own or manage hospitals, but instead have contracts limited to certain functions, services or areas of the hospital.
Individual Student Membership
Additionally, an Individual Student Member is a student enrolled in a course in hospital administration or other career study in the health care industry.
Membership Benefits
The Federation of American Hospitals offers a number of services designed to assist our members in meeting both the policy and marketplace challenges of a complex and changing industry. These services include:
- Advocacy
- Public Policy
- Research
- Communications
- Annual Public Policy Conference and Business Exposition
- Educational Programs
