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Next Deadline for HHS-requested Data to Inform Remdesivir Distribution is Monday, May 18

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) yesterday announced that the next deadline for submitting data to inform the agency’s distribution of its supply of remdesivir is Monday, May 18 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
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Hospitals can apply for ASPR funding to create pediatric disaster care centers

Hospitals and health systems may apply through Aug. 27 for a portion of $3 million in funding to create Pediatric Disaster Care Centers of Excellence to enhance pediatric care during public health crises.
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CDC: Flu activity, hospitalizations on rise

The flu hospitalization rate rose to 22.7 per 100,000 people in the first week of January from 17.7 the prior week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Patient Shares Long COVID-19 Recovery Journey and Encourages Vaccination

After being hospitalized for COVID-19, an Oregon man describes his yearlong journey recovering from long-haul COVID, encouraging others to stay healthy and get vaccinated.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

3 Ways to Adopt the Attributes of High-Value Hospitals

Leaders from Stanford Medicine’s Clinical Excellence Research Center suggest focusing on three sets of care delivery attributes that set top performers apart: (1) thinking beyond the hospital stay; (2) cutting inefficiency, not safety; and (3) engaging the front-line team in improving the cost-effectiveness of needed care.
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ONC: More hospitals able to exchange patient data with outside providers 

Four in 10 acute care hospitals could electronically send, receive, find and integrate patient health information from outside providers or sources in 2017, up from three in 10 in 2016, according to a report released this week by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
Case Studies

Taylor Regional Hospital – Hospitality Van Service

April 2018 - Located in Campbellsville, Kentucky, Taylor Regional Hospital launched its hospitality van service in 2007 when the hospital’s cancer center noticed that patients were missing their routine check-ups and radiation treatments.
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Chair File: Join Us at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting

The 2022 AHA Annual Membership Meeting is just three weeks away, and I’m looking forward to seeing many of you April 24-26 in Washington, D.C.
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Member

Contact Your Senators and Urge Them to Support Hospitals and Health Systems in the Next COVID-19 Relief Package

Please reach out to your senators this week as negotiations occur As Congress considers additional (and possibly its last for a while) COVID-19 relief actions, we need to mount a
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AHA moves to support legal challenge to CMS drug pricing model

The AHA filed a declaration supporting other organizations seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to prevent the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from cutting under its Most Favored Nation Model payments for certain Medicare Part B drugs and biologicals to no more than the lowest price that drug manufacturers receive in other similar countries.