Rural hospitals, already facing enormous challenges, quickly adapted when COVID-19 reached their communities. In this blog, John Supplitt, senior director of AHA Rural Health Services, points to the many examples of rural teams using innovative measures to improve quality of patient care during the pandemic.
Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) News
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A divided Congress. A lapsed deadline to pass important legislation. And uncertainty about how the situation will end.
Virginia launched the first COVID-19 contact tracing app based on the exposure notifications system application programming interface developed by Apple and Google.
The National Institutes of Health announced the Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center, a public-private initiative that will create medical imaging tools to detect and personalize therapies for COVID-19 patients.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has launched a clinical trial to evaluate a potential COVID-19 treatment regimen for hospitalized patients that combines remdesivir with interferon beta-1a, a medication approved to treat multiple sclerosis that laboratory studies suggest may benefit patients with COVID-19. T
More than one in four individuals in a recent national survey reported they would wait four months or longer to seek previously skipped medical care due to fear of COVID-19.
Health care facilities or providers facing inadequate supplies of certain drugs needed to treat patients with COVID-19 should not use the products more than four hours beyond the labeled “in-use time” for refrigerated storage or two hours beyond the labeled “in-use time” for room temperature storage, the Food and Drug Administration announced.
The departments of Health and Human Services and Defense will pay Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson $1 billion to manufacture 100 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate for use in clinical trials, or to vaccinate Americans if authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.
A series of free videos from Med Tac offers guidance on how essential workers and the public can stay safe during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
The AHA, American Medical Association, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and United States Pharmacopeia convened a virtual summit to examine the resilience of the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain in light of the current state of global pharmaceutical manufacturing.
The National Institutes of Health announced clinical trials to investigate the safety and efficacy of a synthetic antibody therapy in COVID-19 patients.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will allow health insurers to offer premium reductions for individuals with 2020 coverage in the individual and small group markets when consistent with state law, the agency announced.
The Department of Health and Human Services released specifications for reporting certain COVID-19 laboratory data as required by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled against the Department of Labor regarding its regulations related to certain expanded paid leave authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
President Trump Aug. 3 signed an executive order on “improving rural health and telehealth access,” with directives to: launch a new payment model for rural health care; develop and implement a strategy to improve rural health care infrastructure.
The National Institutes of Health’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics initiative awarded $248.7 million in contracts to produce four new laboratory tests and three new point-of-care tests to detect SARS-CoV-2.
A Renewed Call to Dare All for Our Country
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Aug. 3 at 3 p.m. ET will hold a webinar with updates on the COVID-19 response, including new resources for businesses and other private-sector organizations.
Loretto Hospital, serving Chicago’s Austin community on the city’s West Side, faces growing financial and staffing pressures while delivering care to a majority Black population in a designated COVID-19 hotspot.
The American Society of Association Executives awarded a 2020 “Power of A” Award to the AHA, The Creative Coalition and the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy for their integrated “Protect the Heroes” campaign.