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Newark Beth Israel Medical Center greenhouse plants seeds for community's health and wellness

Newark (N.J.) Beth Israel Medical Center’s “Beth Greenhouse” is planting the seeds for better health in some of the city’s most food-insecure neighborhoods.
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Better Care at Every Stage of Life

It was great to see Rich Umbdenstock, the AHA’s president emeritus, this week at the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care’s summit on the future of advanced illness
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Perspective: Building on the ACA to Advance Health for All

“Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good” is a quote credited to the French writer and thinker Voltaire. Although he died in 1778, that phrase is very appropriate today when discussing the Affordable Care Act.
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Senate HELP Committee Hearing Focuses on 340B Program

In a statement submitted for the hearing, AHA highlighted how hospitals are using savings from the 340B program to provide access to critical services to their communities.
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Local health systems promote healthy behaviors

Smoking, diabetes and hospital readmission rates fall and exercising and healthy eating increases in communities where hospitals and health systems use effective strategies to encourage healthy behavior changes, writes Nancy Myers, vice president of leadership and system innovation at the AHA Center for Health Innovation.
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Perspective: Protecting Medicaid for our Most Vulnerable Citizens

AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack provides perspective on Medicaid and details potential cuts to the program which threaten millions of America’s most vulnerable patients.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

AHA Environmental Scan: These 5 Technologies Could Transform Society

Many emerging technologies are showing promise in the quest to find innovative solutions to improve care and reduce costs, but health care executives remain cautious about adoption due to lack of capital and fear of creating unintended operational burdens. This is just one of the many insights you’ll learn when you download the AHA’s 2019 Environmental Scan.
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CDC Alerts Providers to Rise in Opioid Deaths Involving Fentanyl

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week alerted health care providers and others to a continued increase in opioid overdose deaths involving fentanyl and its analogs.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Driving Innovation Through Collaboration

Join the AHA in Atlanta on May 9 for the Executive Forum to explore how hospitals and health systems are driving innovation and value through collaboration with providers, payers, employers and community partners.
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Letter to CMS in Response to RFI: Access to Coverage and Care in Medicaid & CHIP

The American Hospital Association (AHA) appreciates the opportunity to provide comments in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) request for information (RFI) regarding access to coverage and care in the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) programs.