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Winona Health – Community Care Network

Winona Health’s Community Care Network (CCN) was developed to expand our impact: to improve health and quality of life, prevent unnecessary hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits, and thereby reduce health care costs. In partnership with Winona State University, Winona Health also trains students to become health coaches.
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John W. Bluford III, in First Person: Selections from the Oral History Interview

This video is an interview with John W. Bluford III, the former president and CEO of Truman Medical Centers, Kansas City, Missouri. It is part of the AHA Oral History Project.
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Major Methodological Flaws Negate Findings from Recent 340B Study

The 340B Drug Savings Program provides eligible providers, many of which are hospitals, with resources to maintain vital services in their communities and to provide additional services to their patients. A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine alleges that the 340B program does not expand access to care to low-income populations or improve their mortality rates, while driving hospital/physician consolidation.
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Hospitals and Care Systems of the Future

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Sinai Hospital of Baltimore – Diabetes Medical Home Extender Program

The Diabetes Medical Home Extender Program offers home-based services by community health workers (CHWs) and a registered nurse to high-risk diabetic patients.
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HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital – Dental Voucher Program

In April 2014, HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital partnered with Effingham Catholic Charities to create a Dental Voucher Program for adults 18 years and older who are underinsured or uninsured and in need of an emergency tooth extraction.
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CDC: Flu Hospitalization Rate Highest Since at Least 2009-2010

The flu hospitalization rate rose last week to 51.4 per 100,000 people, the highest rate for this point in the year since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began enhanced surveillance of laboratory-confirmed flu hospitalizations during the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009-2010.
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AHA Recommends Improvements to FCC Rural Health Care Program

The Federal Communications Commission should increase the funding cap for the Rural Health Care Program to at least account for inflation since the program began, and at the rate of inflation moving forward, AHA told the agency in comments submitted today.
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AONE to Honor Nursing Leader for Lifetime Achievement

The American Organization of Nurse Executives on April 13 will present its 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award to Linda Quinn Everett, RN.