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CDC reports significant increase in ED visits for adolescent suicide attempts
A study comparing suspected emergency department visits for adolescent suicide attempts between February and March of this year to the same period in 2019 showed an increase of 50.6% among girls aged 12-17 years and 3.7% for boys in the same age range, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
FDA: Don’t use antigen test made by Innova Medical Group
The Food and Drug Administration warned health care providers and the public not to use an antigen test for COVID-19 made by Innova Medical Group and distributed under several names.
AHA Board Chair Hochman touts hospital-community partnerships in Modern Healthcare op-ed
Hospital and community collaborations drive meaningful change to meet basic human needs, improve care and advance innovation, writes AHA Board Chair Rod Hochman, M.D., president and CEO of Providence, in an op-ed published today in Modern Healthcare.
CDC urges point-of-discharge COVID-19 vaccinations at emergency departments, urgent care settings
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking jurisdictions to distribute portions of their COVID-19 vaccine allocations to enable administration at hospitals, emergency departments and urgent care facilities following patients’ discharge.
As urged by the AHA, HHS to allow hospitals more time to spend COVID-19 emergency relief funds
As urged by the AHA and other groups, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it is extending the deadline by which hospitals and other providers that received Provider Relief Fund money after June 30, 2020, must use their COVID-19 PRF payments.
HRSA awards $424 million for rural health clinics’ COVID-19 testing and mitigation
The Health Resources and Services Administration awarded $100,000 each to more than 4,200 rural health clinics to maintain and increase COVID-19 testing; expand access to testing for rural residents; and broaden efforts to mitigate COVID-19’s spread in ways tailored to their local communities.
President urged to include health care cybersecurity in infrastructure plans; DOJ prioritizes ransomware attacks
The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council, whose members include the AHA, urged President Biden to include support for health care cybersecurity in a future phase of his infrastructure plan.
AHA statement on the extension of the Provider Relief Fund
AHA statement on the extension of the Provider Relief Fund from President and CEO Rick Pollack.
Community Health Improvement Week 2021: Reflections, Lessons and Inspirations from an Extraordinary Year
Nancy Myers, AHA vice president of leadership and system innovation, talks with Mikelle Moore, senior vice president and chief community health officer at Salt Lake City, Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare, about community health improvement during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
HRSA awards $22 million to train behavioral health workforce
The Health Resources and Services Administration awarded 56 organizations $22 million in grants to train graduate-level students of social work, psychology, and other behavioral and mental health disciplines to work with youth and other vulnerable populations at risk for behavioral health disorders through the Behavioral Health Workforce and Education Training Program for Professionals.