Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources and Special Communications

Columbia VA Health Care System partnered with the Central South Carolina American Red Cross to conduct blood drives, responding to the need to replenish critically low blood supplies.

Boston Children’s Hospital supports several local health centers to ensure children are vaccinated and distribute food, clothing, books and more to families.

In this podcast, Priya Bathija, vice president of The Value Initiative at the AHA, and Carol Vargas, Vice President, Integrated Care and Dr. Sylvia Romm, Chief Innovation Officer, both at Atlantic Health, discuss COVID-19’s impact on telehealth and integrated care.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently updated its FAQs on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act emergency relief fund, with specific attention to provider reporting related to these funds.

Health care boards can play a pivotal role to ensure their patients, employees and communities receive needed resources to heal, restore and rebuild for a better and healthier future.

Working together, hospital and health system boards and executive teams should examine the pandemic’s implications for their organizations, to set strategic direction and better serve patients and communities.

To address gaps in care, hospitals and health systems are analyzing and sharing data and deploying outreach and resources through cross-sector partnerships.

COVID-19 has taken a catastrophic financial toll on health care providers, with an estimated $202.6 billion loss between March and June for hospitals alone. This precipitated a sectorwide downgrade by Moody’s and FitchRatings from stable to negative. Innovation within this context may mean more shared-risk opportunities vs. traditional vendorbuyer relationships, notes Andy Shin, chief operating officer for the AHA’s Center for Health Innovation, in a recent blog.

The COVID-19 outbreak has led to process, technology and operational improvements to enhance patient and staff safety, and many of these changes could figure prominently during the next major infectious disease outbreak or pandemic. Other changes requiring more elaborate planning will impact future hospital designs.

Verily Life Sciences, a sister company to Google, has launched a new set of digital tools to help hospitals and health systems provide ondemand and up-to-date COVID-19 information.

The Federal Reserve Board announced it will seek public comments on a proposal to expand its Main Street Lending Program to provide access to credit for nonprofit organizations, including hospitals, a move advocated for by the AHA. The Main Street Lending Program offers loans to small and medium-sized businesses.

The population health team at LifeBridge Health recognized early on the disproportionate impact that COVID-19 would have on vulnerable populations in Greater Baltimore. The team quickly mobilized outreach to people with limited access to health care and programs addressing social needs.

As Central Illinois reopens from the statewide COVID-19 stay-at-home order, the health system is helping its communities do so safely.

Listen as distributor and manufacturer panelists discuss their changing strategies relating to COVID-19 lessons, domestic verses international production and ways providers, distributors and manufacturers need to work together moving forward.

In this webinar, we will present a case study of Ohio Gastroenterology detailing how they were able to harness the power of analytics and automation to rebuild clinic volumes to 91% in the first 15 days of reopening post-COVID. We’ll discuss identifying the right analytics for your practice, how to set up tracking, and the part marketing and automation plays in reducing patient fear and helping you return to healthy clinic volumes.

A list that represents what actions would be necessary to maintain or extend telehealth flexibilities that were implemented during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last week announced that it is planning an additional $10 billion distribution of funds to hospitals that have been particularly affected by the increased burden of caring for those with COVID-19. To inform how these funds are distributed, HHS is asking all hospitals to provide certain information by today, June 15.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the methodology used to distribute funds to hospitals serving high numbers of Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured patients. The department this week stated that these hospitals would be recipients of an additional $10 billion in funds from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund.

Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, Cleveland-based MetroHealth implemented a plan to treat patients at home. In mid-March, the system opened a