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988 crisis line adds sign language service

The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline now offers American Sign Language services for people who are deaf and hard of hearing, the Department of Health and Human Services announced.
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AHA Comments on CMS Outpatient PPS and Ambulatory Surgery Payment System Proposed Rule for CY 2024

AHA comments on the CMS' hospital outpatient prospective payment system and ambulatory surgical center payment system proposed rule for calendar year (CY) 2024.
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Early data on vaccine effectiveness promising as U.S. flu season approaches

This season’s flu vaccines for the Southern Hemisphere have reduced the risk of being hospitalized for flu by 52%, based on mid-season data from five countries, suggesting the U.S. vaccines could provide similar protection if similar viruses continue to predominate, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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Getting Started with TeamSTEPPS | Team Training | Center

TeamSTEPPS (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety) is designed to help health care professionals improve patient safety and quality through effective communication and teamwork skills.
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Partnership Opportunities | Team Training | Center

AHA Team Training is driven by the community request to help health care organizations provide better and more efficient team-based care.
Courses

About | Team Training | Center

Our mission is to foster a TeamSTEPPS movement that transforms teams of experts into expert teams. AHA Team Training educates, convenes and shapes hospitals, health systems and other related organizations to provide better team-based care.
Issue Landing Page
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Hospitals and health systems can play an important role in ensuring children and adolescents receive the behavioral health care they need to thrive.
Issue Landing Page

Advocacy Issue: Physician-Owned Hospitals

Some members of Congress continue to propose weakening Medicare’s prohibition on physician self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals and loosening restrictions on the growth of grandfathered hospitals. Legislation has been introduced that would allow problematic physician-owned hospitals to open and permit unfettered growth in existing physician-owned hospitals.
AHA’s Preferred Cybersecurity Providers Podcast

Episode 3: Cybersecurity Best Practices to Protect Hospital Information Assets

In this podcast episode, listeners will learn how a persistent data-centric security approach and program can help to reduce the cyber risks that threaten patient safety and care delivery, as well as how to decrease the threat of cyber-attacks, including ransomware.
AHA’s Preferred Cybersecurity Providers Podcast

Episode 2: Strategies for Using Cybersecurity to Protect Patient Safety at Rural Hospitals

In this podcast episode, listeners will learn how to create a culture of cybersecurity in their organization and facilitate board-level risk visibility and accountability to ultimately protect patient safety.