The March of Dimes recently updated its implicit bias training modules to emphasize the importance of creating an action plan.
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The AHA yesterday launched the newest poster in its People Matter, Words Matter series.
The National Academy of Medicine is launching an action collaborative in support of decarbonizing the U.S. health care sector.
The rule would decrease aggregate Medicare spending by $320 million compared with FY 2022.
Responding to the Lown Institute’s latest report on hospital community benefits, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack notes that financial assistance is only one part of a hospital’s total community benefit.
CDC today reported a 15% increase in syphilis among newborns in 2020, as well as a 7% increase in syphilis and 10% increase in gonorrhea in other Americans.
Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, last week introduced a Senate companion to the Rural Hospital Support Act.
As part of a White House initiative to reduce medical debt for consumers, HHS will ask more than 2,000 health care providers for data on their medical bill collection practices.
The agency last week extended the J&J vaccine's shelf life and authorized two COVID-19 tests.
Learn how hospital and health system leaders are improving consumers’ digital experience by executing a comprehensive digital front-door strategy.
This week is Black Maternal Health Week, and April is National Minority Health Month. It’s an opportunity to “deepen the conversation” about black maternal health in the U.S. and to highlight the “important role individuals and organizations can play” in helping to reduce health disparities and improve the health of racial and ethnic minority communities.
The final rule also codifies guidance on applying the changes beginning in contract year 2023.
MACPAC calls on CMS to increase transparency and oversight of directed payments in Medicaid managed care.
Medicare will only cover FDA-approved monoclonal antibodies that target amyloid to treat Alzheimer’s disease for beneficiaries enrolled in qualifying clinical trials.
The agency will accept comments until May 9 on ways to improve the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
The customizable toolkit offers resources to help prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections.
The AHA’s American Organization for Nursing Leadership will present 2022 awards for diversity, leadership and achievement during its annual conference next week in San Antonio.
For more than two full years – day in and day out – hospitals and health systems and their front-line caregivers have cared for patients, comforted families and protected communities during this unprecedented public health crisis.
As Congress prepares to adjourn for its April recess, AHA today emphasized to congressional leaders the need for immediate additional support for hospitals and health systems.
Health care providers who missed the deadline to report on period 1 Provider Relief Funds due to certain extenuating circumstances may request April 11-22 to submit a late report.