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Denver Health System | Colorado

Denver Health has been treating and healing the people of Denver, Colorado for more than 160 years. Denver Health provides health care services to one in three residents of the metropolitan area. Many of its patients have complex health care and social needs, including the uninsured, people experiencing poverty, people living with substance use disorder, pregnant teens, victims of violence, people experiencing homelessness, and victims of trauma.
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RML Specialty Hospital | Illinois

As a long-term care hospital (LTCH), RML specializes in serving patients with highly complex needs for an extended period of time, many for 25 days or longer. Founded in 1987, RML is the largest ventilator-weaning hospital in the United States along with one of the largest inpatient dialysis populations at any LTCH in the country.
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Good Samaritan Society | Midwest U.S.

The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, based in Sioux Falls, SD, is North America’s largest not-for-profit provider of senior care and services. Its more than 200 locations are primarily concentrated in the Midwestern U.S.
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AHA Expresses Support for the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4531)

AHA expresses support for the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4531).
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Accountable Care Organizations Case Studies

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have been heralded as a promising model for improving the quality of care and reducing
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AHA Model Letters Re: ACO-related Fraud & Abuse and Antitrust Issues

On March 31, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the much-anticipated proposed regulation for the Medicare Shared Savings Program, which encourages the voluntary formation of accountable care organizations (ACOs).
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HHS releases cybersecurity strategy for health care sector

The Department of Health and Human Services Dec. 6 released a concept paper outlining its cybersecurity strategy for the health care sector, which builds on a national strategy President Biden released last year.
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AHA podcast: Embedding an Organizational Culture of Wellness

Kristine Olson, M.D., chief wellness officer at Yale New Haven Hospital, discusses how the hospital is working to develop wellness and well-being across the organization and the positive results.
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Letter to the editor: Article on hospital charity care misleads

A recent Modern Healthcare article suggests that hospitals’ charity care as a share of expenses declined between 2020 and 2023, but the authors’ own data tell a different story, write AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and Catholic Health Association President and CEO Sr. Mary Haddad.
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AHA urges House leadership to remove site-neutral cuts from transparency bill

AHA Dec. 6 voiced support for a provision in the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378) that would suspend for two years the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital reductions scheduled to go into effect on Oct. 1, but urged House leaders to reject another provision that would permanently implement reductions to Medicare payments for drug administration services in off-campus hospital outpatient departments.