The AHA submitted comments to a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services request for information on regulatory relief to support economic recovery. Specifically, AHA urged the agency to take additional action to remove certain regulatory barriers standing in the way of efficiency and innovation, thus allowing hospitals to provide better and more cost-effective care to our patients and communities. In order to achieve these objectives, we ask the agency to temporarily extend certain waivers and make others permanent beyond the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources and Special Communications
Below are links to AHA resources developed in response to novel coronavirus (COVID-19). For all coronavirus resources and news updates, visit our COVID-19 page.
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Selecting vaccine storage equipment; Is your facility coronavirus vaccine ready?; COVID-19 Vaccines: A Guide for Individuals.
The House and Senate last night approved the
The COVID-19 Vaccine Communications Toolkit was developed as a guide throu
Healthcare groups release proceedings of summit exploring drug safety, supply chain security
AHA statement on COVID relief package and government funding bill from President and CEO RIck Pollack.
The AHA today released a public service announcement thanking the many health care professionals working in America’s hospitals and health systems
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House and Senate leaders late yesterday announced an agreement on a roughly $900 billion COVID-19 relief package that includes a number of provisions beneficial to hospitals a
Details on dosing, storage and preparation of Moderna’s mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine.
December 18, 2020
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Capitol Building, H-222
Washington, DC 20515
In this Members in Action podcast, Julia Resnick, Senior Program Manager at the AHA, is speaking with Casey Cooper, CEO and Dr. Rick Bunio, executive clinical director of Cherokee Indian Hospital and Principal Chief Richard Sneed of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians. They will be discussing the impact of the hospital’s relationship-based integrated care model and how it has enable their community to better address the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This month’s Nursing Outlook highlights a collaboration at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), which engaged nurse practitioner
A first-of-its-kind rapid blood test could lower COVID-19 mortality by identifying which patients are responding to drug treatments and which patients are still deteriorating
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that it is extending the quarter 3 (Q3) 2020 data submission deadlines for several of its quality reporting and value programs for hospitals, post-acute care and other providers. CMS indicates the extension is intended “to help providers focus on patient care during the COVID-19 public health emergency.”
Nurse communication showed a moderately strong correlation to overall hospital ratings in a study of Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems