Chanda Chacón, president and CEO at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., talks with AHA about the hospital’s recently established pediatric mental health urgent care center.
Six national organizations, including the AHA, today urged congressional leaders to permanently expand access to the Affordable Care Act’s advance premium tax credits.
The AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering recently updated its free tool to help health care facilities assess and prevent infection risk during construction, renovation and maintenance.
The ad spotlights the pandemic’s toll on the nation’s health care workforce, noting that nearly 45% of nurses encountered physical violence and over two-thirds were victims of verbal abuse in early 2020.
The Point of Care Celltrion DiaTrust COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test may have been distributed to unauthorized laboratories, which could increase the risk of false results.
by Wright L. Lassiter III, Chair, American Hospital Association
One priority for hospitals and health systems is advancing diversity, equity and inclusion. The AHA’s next gathering, the Accelerating Health Equity Conference, May 10–12 in Cleveland, will focus on that topic.
Medtronic this week alerted health care providers to a defect in its Heartware Ventricular Assist Device System that may cause the internal pump to malfunction.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released a report on the nine children recently hospitalized in Alabama with acute hepatitis of unknown origin who also had adenovirus.
Policymakers should strengthen Medicare payment rates rather than hold them up as the gold standard, argues Benjamin Finder, AHA’s director of policy research and analysis.
AHA today joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Association of American Medical Colleges in a friend-of-the-court brief asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut to dismiss the case.