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Helping patients overcome socioeconomic barriers to better health by building partnerships that improve the community’s health will be critical to hospitals’ and health systems’ ability to continue
The panel that advises the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on hospital outpatient payments sent a clear signal to the agency this week: Don’t shortchange patients’ access to vital phar
Looking for more evidence of the stellar work being done in health care across the country?
The AHA is eager to recognize excellence among America’s hospitals and health systems.
After a one-year hiatus the AHA Quest for Quality Prize is back, updated to reflect the hospital and health system field’s broader emphasis on quality and improving health status. Oct.
More than 140 Americans die from a drug overdose every day – that’s more than from gun homicides and car crashes combined. Most of these deaths are due to prescription painkillers, heroin and
The AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) affiliate recently released a resource that points the way towar
Senators have left Washington for their home states for a month-long recess.
The health care world is changing. New technologies are moving the field in new and different directions, all of which is good news for patients.
America’s hospitals take a lot of pride in staying close to their communities. We like to believe we have our fingers on the pulse of the people we serve.
In a dramatic early morning vote, after months of debate in both houses of Congress, today the Senate voted down its latest attempt to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act.
This week’s AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego gives us the opportunity to honor our hospital and health system champions for their i
This was a dramatic week for the Senate’s efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
The exorbitant cost of many prescription drugs threatens providers’ ability to provide life-saving medications for millions of Americans.
POLITICO’s recent piece on the impact of the Affordable Care Act on non-profit hospitals is an incomplete and inaccurate understanding of the situation hospitals currently face and the ben
Last month, we urged the Senate to go back to the drawing board after its original proposal included dramatic cuts to the Medicaid program and the loss of health care coverage for tens of millions