The AHA has released a new video thanking the women and men of America's hospitals and health systems for their heroic efforts to care for patients and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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AHA supports extending the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model for an additional three years, but only on a voluntary basis, the association told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
As urged by the AHA, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) today issued an interim final rule clarifying certain provisions implementing the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), including whether public hospitals are eligible for a PPP loan.
As hospitals rise to meet the challenges of COVID-19 head on, the virus and its effect on the nation have created historic financial pressures for America’s hospitals and health systems. Hospitals have canceled non-emergency procedures, and many Americans are postponing care as they shelter in place to stop the spread of the virus.
In this webinar, health care provider panelists shared how their organizations have adapted their patient access procedures to ensure a safe environment for delivering care. They addressed how they’re navigating patients to alternative care settings, like telehealth, and how they're providing their communities vital, timely information about receiving care.
The federal government has adopted the following process to manage federal ventilator resources to ensure the ventilators and related supplies are shipped to locations in the amount needed to manage the immediate crisis.
Elliot Health System nurses know a clean and safe environment for all staff and patients is vital to combatting COVID-19 and honor their environmental services team as health care heroes.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this week announced regulations requiring nursing homes to fully cooperate with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) surveillance of the spread of COVID-19 by reporting cases of COVID-19 directly to the CDC.
During an webinar hosted April 22 by the American Hospital Association, senior leaders from Baltimore’s Sheppard Pratt Health System discussed ways to re-engineer care processes and protocols and to perform a virtual assessment designed to decrease the number of psychiatric patients in the emergency department during the COVID-19 surge.
Eight recommendations for optimizing infection control and operating room management stand on a substantial body of empirical evidence characterizing the epidemiology of perioperative transmission and infection development, according to the authors of a recent paper.
The Coalition for Health Funding, which includes AONL, wrote to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations this month to urge Congress to significantly boost federal investments in health in FY 2021.
Becker’s Hospital Review reached out to 73 hospital and health system leaders in the 10 states hardest hit by COVID-19 to get their thoughts on leadership, communication, surge planning, employee wellbeing, working with government and other topics.
With the COVID-19 pandemic placing extraordinary strains on health professionals and hospital staff, some health systems are finding creative ways to support their employees.
A nurse, a physician and a public health professor with experience in disaster response recommend health care organizations implement three strategies to enhance organizational cohesion and reduce adverse effects on employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As part of the World Health Organization (WHO) International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, WHO released the State of the World’s Nursing Report 2020 this month.
People with diabetes appear to be at higher risk of having more severe COVID-19 infections, but researchers have insufficient data to quantify that risk, according to an April 8 evidence review by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM).
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a dedicated page highlighting resources related to COVID-19 response and recovery.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now reporting national data on confirmed COVID-19 cases by both race and ethnicity.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT this week announced the final interoperability rules will be published in the Federal Register May 1 with changes in certain compliance and enforcement deadlines. The rules were originally released on March 9.