New AHA report finds that the financial losses for hospitals and health systems due to the COVID-19 pandemic have deepened.
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A new AHA report finds that the immense financial strain facing hospitals and health systems due to COVID-19 will continue through at least the end of 2020, with patient volume expected to remain well below baseline levels. The report estimates total losses for the nation’s hospitals and health systems of at least $323.1 billion in 2020.
AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to temporarily extend certain waivers and make others permanent beyond the COVID-19 public health emergency to allow hospitals to provide better and more cost effective care to their patients and communities.
As telehealth adoption takes off in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, research is lacking into telehealth’s ability to improve access, lower costs and effect quality measures such as readmission rates and emergency department use.
In the face of the social and economic threats posed by COVID-19, conventional approaches to innovation are being complemented by a fast approach, which repurposes readily available ideas and technology.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration, announced awards totaling $107.2 million to 310 recipients to increase the health care workforce in rural and underserved communities.
The American Nurses Foundation has launched a suite of free tools and resources specifically designed to support nurses’ mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Experts discussed evidence-based best practices in dealing with trauma experienced by health care staff as a result of COVID-19 during a recent webinar hosted by the Joint Commission and the National Council for Behavioral Health. Healing strategies to promote resilience—for individuals and organizations—were also discussed.
COVID-19 Update for Rural Hospitals and Health Systems
White Plains Hospital works with community partners to address food insecurity and other health and social needs of its neighbors.
Nurses are being redeployed to unfamiliar units to care for the surge of critically ill patients entering hospitals globally. Learn how virtual orientation can help effectively redeploy your nurses.
The AHA Resource Center has created these ‘live’ searches to the latest research articles on COVID-19.
The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 was enacted, in part, to develop a unified payment model for the post-acute care (PAC) field, recognizing that payment needed to be modernized for the four PAC settings – home health (HH) agencies, skilled nursing facilities (SNF), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF), and long-term care hospitals (LTCH). However, the legislation could not account for the transformative changes implemented to the existing PAC payment systems following its passage.
On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, and our clinician partners – including 3,000 post-acute care providers, the American Hospital Association (AHA) writes in support of resetting the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 in the next COVID-19 relief package.
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