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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Updated resources on caring for mothers and babies during the pandemic are now available on the American Hospital Association (AHA) website.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced steps to address the COVID-19 pandemic and issued guidance aimed at averting discrimination during the public health emergency.
While many hospitals and health systems are focused on a possible resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the fall, Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville, Ark., is only now seeing its first surge of these patients.
A team at M Health Fairview in Minnesota creates a rehabilitation playbook to provide individualized care to COVID-19 patients after their hospital discharge.
The COVID-to-Home program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center monitors and assesses COVID-19 patients from diagnosis to discharge and saves lives.
As America’s health care providers continue responding to the first wave of COVID-19, Banner Health is being hit hard for the second time.
As Congress considers additional (and possibly its last for a while) COVID-19 relief actions, we need to mount a full court pres
AHA, AMA and ANA urge congress to include additional $100 billion for emergency relief fund in COVID-19 relief package.
Congress should allocate as part of the next COVID-19 relief package at least an additional $100 billion to the emergency relief fund to provide direct funding to front line health care personnel and providers, the AHA, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association wrote today to Senate leaders.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week shared additional information on reporting requirements for recipients of provider relief funds authorized under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act.
As the rates of COVID-19 continue to rise in certain areas across the country, the need for greater coordination and even an expanded health care workforce may become critical.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack, AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels and AHA Senior Vice President of Public Policy Analysis and Development Ashley Thompson provided the latest from Capitol Hill and then hospital leaders urged their senators to provide additional resources to hospitals and health systems.