The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics awarded $26 million from the American Rescue Plan Act to research and develop advanced infectious disease models and analytical tools.
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The Department of Health and Human Services released an overdose prevention strategy focused on prevention, harm reduction, evidence-based treatment, and recovery support.
The AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative, along with the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety, today released Creating Safer Workplaces: A guide to mitigating violence in health care settings.
A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted to recommend an emergency use authorization of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children age 5-11.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has named Henry Walke, M.D., to direct its Center for Preparedness and Response effective Nov. 7.
In a study comparing 6.4 million COVID-19 vaccine recipients with 4.6 million demographically similar unvaccinated persons, recipients of the Pfizer, Moderna or Janssen vaccines had lower non-COVID-19 mortality risk than did the unvaccinated comparison groups, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
A shortage of nurses and other workers are driving up costs for hospitals and will continue to erode their financial performance into 2022, according to a new report by Moody’s Investors Service on the impact of labor shortages and cost pressures on health care subsectors.
Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Tina Smith, D-Minn., and Reps. Paul Tonko, D-N.Y., and Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., have introduced the Medicare Mental Health Inpatient Equity Act (S. 3061/H.R. 5674), AHA-supported legislation that would eliminate the Medicare program’s 190-day lifetime limit on inpatient psychiatric days in freestanding psychiatric facilities.
Microsoft on Sunday posted an update on the latest activity by Nobelium, a Russian nation-state actor behind cyberattacks on SolarWinds customers in 2020.
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on a number of bills to bolster the health care workforce, including the AHA-supported Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (H.R. 1667).
A recent study published in JAMA Health Forum that examines CARES Act Provider Relief Funds allocated to health care providers misses the point of those payments and makes arbitrary choices about which payments to include, writes Ashley Thompson, AHA senior vice president for public policy analysis and development, in a new AHA blog post.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission posted updated and expanded technical assistance related to the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing questions about religious objections to employer COVID-19 vaccine requirements and how they interact with federal Equal Employment Opportunity laws.
The Nebraska Hospital Association named as its president, effective Dec. 6, Jeremy Nordquist, who currently serves as government affairs director for Nebraska Medicine and has 20 years’ experience in advocacy at the state and federal level. Laura Redoutey, NHA president since 2000, will retire Dec. 31.
Starting today, consumers can preview 2022 health plans and prices at the federally facilitated Health Insurance Marketplace. Open enrollment for 2022 Marketplace plans begins Nov. 1 and runs through Jan. 15.
The National Institutes of Health will use $70 million from the American Rescue Plan Act for a program to speed development of accurate and reliable over-the-counter tests for COVID-19, the Department of Health and Human Services announced.
Moderna released topline results from its ongoing phase 2/3 clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine for children age 6 through 11, revealing a strong antibody response against SARS-CoV-2.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released Medicare Part B billing codes and payment allowances for reporting and administering single booster doses of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines to eligible adults as authorized Oct. 22 by the Food and Drug Administration.
The AHA sent a letter of support for the Student Assisted Vaccination Effort (SAVE) Act (S. 2114 ), a Senate bill that would expand the types of providers covered by the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act to include health care students assisting with administering COVID-19 vaccines.
Oct. 26 is the deadline for health care providers to apply to the Health Resources and Services Administration for a portion of $25.5 billion in COVID-19 relief funds.
Increased health care use and intensity of services have been the key drivers of health care spending growth as the U.S. population continues to age, with hospital price growth averaging just 2% annually from 2010 to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report released today by the AHA.