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AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

4 Strategies to Drive Health-Equity Success

Innovative community-centered partnerships and creative investment strategies can mitigate health disparities that adversely affect excluded or marginalized groups. And many health systems are using these approaches to achieve powerful results, notes a recent NEJM Catalyst analysis.
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Tennessee Hospital Leaders Pen Open Letter on Getting Vaccinated

Health care leaders plead for people to get vaccinated and mask up to slow one of the Tennessee’s biggest COVID-19 surges.
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AHA Urges HHS to Release COVID-19 Relief Funds to Hospitals, Health Systems

The Honorable Xavier Becerra Secretary U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201
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Perspective: Ensuring Our Message is Heard as Congress Returns to Washington

Americans are ready to move on from COVID-19, but the virus isn’t finished, and hospitals are still feeling the crush of the pandemic.
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Hospitals given additional week to complete AHA RACTrac survey

The AHA has extended to Feb. 6 the deadline for all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey.
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AHA presses Bureau of Land Management to work with HHS, others to secure helium pipeline

The AHA last week encouraged the Bureau of Land Management to work with the Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the Food and Drug Administration to assist in taking steps to protect access to helium prior to executing the final sale of the Federal Helium Reserve near Amarillo, Texas.
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Perspective: Say It Again, Hospitals and Health Systems are an Integral Part of America’s Infrastructure

When COVID-19 was rapidly sweeping through the country in spring 2020, Americans instinctively did what they have done for generations in times of peril: They turned to hospitals for safety, securi
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CMS Begins Issuing Warning Notices to Hospitals for Noncompliance with Hospital Price Transparency Rule

The hospital price transparency rule took effect Jan. 1, 2021. CMS verified for the AHA that the agency has begun proactive audits of hospital websites and a review of complaints submitted through the CMS Hospital Price Transparency website.
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Improving Maternal and Infant Services in Rural Iowa

Millions of women across the United States have no access to maternal health care, particularly in rural areas that lack obstetric services.
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CDC reports on characteristics of hospitalized pregnant women hospitalized with COVID-19

In a sample of 598 hospitalized pregnant women with COVID-19, 55% had no symptoms on admission, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.