The AHA today responded to a new RAND report examining policy options to reduce hospital prices paid by private health plans.
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Long-term acute care hospitals have played a critical role during the COVID-19 public health emergency, according to a new report by ATI Advisory.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack Feb. 17 kicked off the virtual AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference by welcoming more than 900 rural hospital and health system leaders and trustees.
AHA Board Chair Rod Hochman, M.D., Feb. 17 presented the AHA Rural Hospital Leadership Team Award to Southwestern Vermont Medical Center for its outstanding leadership and responsiveness to its community’s health needs.
Attendees of the 2021 AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference heard from keynote speaker Mark Shrime, M.D., O'Brien Chair of Global Surgery at Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin and lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and James Orlikoff, president of Orlikoff and Associates, Inc., who shared his insights on implications of the pandemic for the future of rural health care.
by Elizabeth Kenefick, by Nancy A. Myers, by Robin Hacke
Place-based investment, otherwise known as community investment, helps create the social and physical environments that support community health over the long term. As communities recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, community investment will be an innovative yet useful strategy for reimagining and rebuilding a more equitable society at a scale that grants alone cannot achieve.
Allina Health and communities throughout Minnesota yesterday observed the one-week mark of the Feb. 9 attack in the Buffalo Crossroad clinic that killed one person and injured four others.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is determining whether to withdraw its authority for nine states to implement work requirements as a condition of Medicaid eligibility under Section 1115 demonstration waivers approved by the former administration.
Health officials in Guinea Sunday declared an Ebola outbreak in the nation’s southeastern N’Zerekore prefecture after confirming three cases in the rural community of Gouéké, the World Health Organization reports.
The Black Coalition Against COVID-19 Feb. 18 from 12-2:30 p.m. ET will host a virtual workshop for participants to share, learn and collaborate on best practices for the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines in Black communities.
Annual spending for health care declined by 2% in 2020, including a 7% decline in spending for hospital care, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a preliminary analysis by Altarum.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission should thoroughly review provider and patient experiences with the vast array of virtual services employed during the COVID-19 pandemic before proposing telehealth policies for after the public health emergency, AHA told the panel.
The AHA’s Physician Alliance today released the Well-being Playbook 2.0, a new resource that builds on its 2019 playbook to help hospital and health system leaders support their teams during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The federal government will increase its weekly shipments of COVID-19 vaccines to states, the White House announced.
The Biden administration announced a $1.6 billion investment to expand COVID-19 testing, increase manufacturing of testing supplies and spur virus genome sequencing.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released recommendations for treating Extensively Drug-Resistant Salmonella Typhi, a systemic illness transmitted through contaminated food and water and person-to-person contact.
The AHA asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw its inpatient rehabilitation facility review choice demonstration.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released guidance on COVID-19 vaccination planning, training and administration for health care providers who vaccinate homebound persons.
AHA’s Wear A Mask and United Against the Flu campaigns released new resources
by Rod Hochman, M.D.
As we forge ahead in 2021 facing a lot of uncertainty, there’s one thing we recognize: The COVID-19 pandemic will have a lasting effect on the health and well-being of our nation.