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CMS Requests Proposals to Participate in Quality Improvement Contractor Network

CMS is accepting proposals through June 26 to participate in a Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractors to support health care quality improvement efforts across settings and programs.
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NETEC Announces Ebola Training; Congo Launches Vaccine Campaign

Health care and public health leaders, clinicians and first responders can register to attend an Aug. 7-8 workshop in Atlanta on preparing for Ebola and other emerging infectious diseases.
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Chair File: Hospitals Stand Together to End Violence

The tragic events last Friday in Santa Fe, TX, remind us, violence is all too present in our communities. Our hearts go out to all those affected … students, teachers, families, friends, first responders, caregivers, clergy and more.
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Diversity Roundtable Discusses Eliminating Health Disparities

When addressing health care disparities it is imperative to begin by creating a climate of change and embedding it within your organization’s culture, panelists said at the AHA Annual Meeting.
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Obituary: Health Care Leader Edward Connors

Edward J. Connors, who served as president of Mercy Health Services in Farmington Hills, MI, from 1976 to 1993, died last Thursday. He was 89.
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Panel to Create National Plan to Accelerate Patient Safety Progress

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement today convened a national steering committee, whose members include the AHA, to create a national plan to accelerate patient safety progress across the care continuum.
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Senate Hearing Examines Health Care Workforce Shortages

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today held a hearing on how to address the growing shortage of physicians, nurses and other health care professionals, especially in rural areas, as the U.S. population ages.
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CDC Survey: Uninsured Rate Unchanged in 2017

An estimated 9.1% of U.S. residents, or 29.3 million people, lacked health insurance when surveyed in 2017.
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USAID Provides $8 Million to Combat Ebola in Congo

The U.S. Agency for International Development will contribute at least $8 million to combat the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar announced today in a speech to the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.
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AHA to HRSA: Implement 340B Drug Ceiling Price Rule Without Further Delay

AHA today urged the Health Resources and Services Administration to implement without further delay its final regulation on 340B drug ceiling prices and civil monetary penalties for manufacturers.