Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources and Special Communications

The American Hospital Association asks Health and Human Services to provide additional guidance and flexibility for providers caring for patients with behavioral health disorders.

The Federal Reserve today announced the terms of both expanded and new “Main Street” lending facilities that would provide loans to a variety of eligible borrowers, including borrowers that obtain loans through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) administered by the Small Business Administration and larger borrowers with up to 10,000 employees or $2.5 billion in annual revenues.

AHRMM is sharing resources from organizations that we think may help you and your hospital or health system in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dive into a dialogue on resiliency in crisis and ways Rush University System for Health has both prepared and adapted to operate strongly through the COVID-19 crisis.

AHA urged the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider at once its decision to limit participation i

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has presented hospitals and health systems with the greatest public health challenge in recent history.

This report provides an overview of links to models that can help organizations address COVID-19 case projections and capacity planning, community vulnerability mapping and case mapping. The report provides links to 11 COVID-19 models and provides an overview of each tool’s capabilities and the resource’s methodology documentation.

Here are some of the latest ways hospitals, health systems and others are adapting operations to stem the pandemic surge.

FCN creates virtual community connections to share COVID-19 updates, resources and spiritual support.

Ensuring the safety and well-being of our health care workforce is a key priority for our nation’s hospitals and health systems. In addition to a national shortage of protective equipment (PPE) there are also workforce shortage issues related to COVID-19. AHA is expanding our 100 Million Mask Challenge to support the state, regional and metro hospital associations as they assist hospitals both locally and across their states to address growing workforce shortages.

Wynn, a yellow Lab, makes life a little less stressful at a Denver hospital.

The FBI anticipates cyber actors will exploit increased use of virtual environments by government agencies, the private sector, private organizations, and individuals as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cyber criminals are targeting organizations that use popular cloud-based email services to conduct Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. The scams are initiated through specifically developed phish kits designed to mimic the cloud-based email services in order to compromise business email accounts and request or misdirect transfers of funds.

The Food and Drug Administration March 22 issued an emergency use authorization for the Battelle Decontamination System for decontaminating compatible N95 and equivalent respirators for reuse by health care personnel. This AHA Coronavirus Update includes information on the Battelle Critical Care Decontamination System (CCDS)TM and how it could help organizations in areas served by Battelle – New York, New Jersey, Ohio (inc. Indiana and Michigan) and Washington – access additional quantities of N95 and equivalent respirators.

This is a joint alert from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).

AHA released a statement from its President and CEO Rick Pollack on the proposal for additional emergency funding for hospitals and health systems.

How Riverwood Healthcare Center (RHCC) in Aitkin, Minn., quickly deployed Zoom for Business to virtually treat patients amidst the coronavirus pandemic. 

The American Hospital Association urges the Small Business Association to ensure that small- and mid-size public hospitals, including those that have both nonprofit and public designations, are allowed to apply for and receive loans under the newly-authorized Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program.

Learn from nurse leaders from New York who are in various stages of planning and implementing surge staffing amidst the COVID-19.

On this podcast, John Riggi, Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk at the American Hospital Association and FBI Cyber Division Senior Executive Herb Stapleton discuss significant corona-related