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Trustee Articles

Getting to the New Normal in Health Care

Health care boards can play a pivotal role to ensure their patients, employees and communities receive needed resources to heal, restore and rebuild for a better and healthier future.
Letter/Comment

AHA Letter of Support for GET CARE Act

On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, our clinical partners – including more than 270,000 affiliated physicians, 2 million nurses and other caregivers – and the 43,000 health care leaders who belong to our professional membership groups, the American Hospital Association (AHA) supports the “The Getting Early Treatment and Comprehensive Assessments Reduces Emergencies (GET CARE)” Act.
Content

Enhance Value through National Policies and Social Change

Improving the health of an entire community involves many touchpoints, including long-term efforts to change the social and environmental factors that impact health. In today’s podcast, Julia Resnick, senior program manager for The Value Initiative at AHA, explores the secrets to TCI’s success with Jaime Dircksen, vice president of community health and well-being for Trinity Health.
News

AHA podcast channel named to top podcast list

AHA’s Advancing Health podcast channel recently ranked 7th on Feedspot’s Top 55 Healthcare Leadership Podcasts To Follow in 2020.
News

Blog: Working with hospitals to systematically treat victims of mass violence

Michael Schmidt, researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina and co-director of Environmental & Health Crimes at the National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center, unveils a new partnership between his organization and AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative, which is designed to support hospitals and health systems in caring for victims and communities impacted by mass violence incidents.
News

N.H. receives waiver to implement reinsurance program

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Department of the Treasury approved a Section 1332 waiver for New Hampshire to implement a five-year reinsurance program for its individual health insurance market beginning in 2021.
News

Missouri voters approve Medicaid expansion

Missouri voters approved an expansion of the state’s Medicaid initiative, the second state to do so during the COVID-19 pandemic.
News

AHA podcast — Hospitals ready to care for patients during pandemic

More than one in four individuals in a recent national survey reported they would wait four months or longer to seek previously skipped medical care due to fear of COVID-19.
News

FDA issues guidance on extending ‘in-use time’ for shortage drugs

Health care facilities or providers facing inadequate supplies of certain drugs needed to treat patients with COVID-19 should not use the products more than four hours beyond the labeled “in-use time” for refrigerated storage or two hours beyond the labeled “in-use time” for room temperature storage, the Food and Drug Administration announced.
Special Bulletin

Special Bulletin: CMS Releases FY 2021 IRF PPS Final Rule

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday issued the final rule for the inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2021.