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HRSA awards $319 million for programs serving clinician shortage areas

The Health Resources and Services Administration yesterday awarded $319 million in fiscal year 2019 funding to support scholarship and loan repayment for medical, dental and behavioral health clinicians and students who serve in underserved rural, urban and tribal communities through the National Health Service Corps.
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How Froedtert Health advances a culture of equity

In this AHA Stat Blog, Froedtert Health Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer Andres Gonzalez, a board member at the AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, shares the Milwaukee-based organization’s strategies for enhancing health equity, diversity and inclusion.
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Andres Gonzalez

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Ways and Means Committee passes drug pricing bill

The House Ways and Means Committee last night voted 24-17 to approve a revised version of the Lower Prescription Drug Costs Now Act.
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FTC orders health systems, insurers to provide data for COPA study

The Federal Trade Commission has ordered two health systems and five health insurance companies to provide data for a study on the effects of certificates of public advantage on health care prices, quality, access and innovation; and the impact of hospital consolidation on employee wages.
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AHA urges reconsideration of 3rd Circuit FCA decision

Unless overturned, a recent Court of Appeals decision in a False Claims Act case “may force hospitals to adopt fundamental changes to their compensation practices at significant cost and loss of productivity.”
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Report recommends actions to address clinician burnout

Between one-third and one-half of U.S. clinicians experience burnout and addressing the epidemic requires systemic changes by health care organizations, educational institutions and all levels of government.
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AHA members share strategies for advancing health equity, value

Improving healthy equity can provide “tremendous value” to patients, communities, hospitals and the health care delivery system in the United States.
Advisory
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Member Advisory: 20th Anniversary of To Err Is Human

In November 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which is now the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), released its landmark report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. In anticipation of the 20th anniversary of the report’s release, media outlets will be revisiting the report and commenting on the progress the field has made on the important issues of quality and patient safety.
Case Studies
Member

Voices on Value: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary Witkowski and Harry Wolberg, Part 3

In part three of our series discussing Value-Based Health