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he AHA today released a one-page guide to help hospital and health system board members and leaders in vulnerable communities implement a multi-step strategy to address the underlying social conditions that often prevent individuals from being able to access health care or achieve health goals.

The House of Representatives today voted 419-3 to approve $7.85 billion as part of an initial Hurricane Harvey relief package.

As the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee holds a series of bipartisan hearings on stabilizing the individual health insurance market, AHA and seven other organizations urged th

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released an online training course<

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday awarded $28.6 million to help 44 states

The AHA this week is running print and digital ads in Modern Healthcare on how to support hospital employees affected by Hurricane Harvey.

Death rates involving heroin increased in all Census regions between 2006 and 2015, driven in part by increases in heroin supplies after 2010 and heroin mixed with illicit fentanyl, a synthetic opi

In a statement sent to accrediting organizations Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it will develop guidance regarding the definition of what constitutes a ligature

Abbott is updating the firmware for all St.

About 80.5% of hospitals had adopted at least a basic electronic health record in 2015, up from 75.2% in 2014, according to a study reported

Amanda Buccina, R.N., is th

Cleveland-based Metro Health’s trauma center doesn’t just treat a patient’s gunshot wounds. It also helps the patient avoid getting hurt again.

For more than 20 years, Springfield, Mass.-based Mercy Medical Center’s Vietnamese Health Project has been a bridge between the city’s more than 5,000 Vietnamese residents and health ca

In a letter today to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, AHA laid out actions th

Efforts to create a trusted exchange framework and common agreements for health information exchange should not disrupt working exchanges but focus on creating a more seamless network of networks,

Commenting today on a potential alternative to Medicare’s current “RUGs” payment system for skilled nursing facility services, AHA said the proposed “RCS-1” replacement model would generally promot

The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking nominations to an interagency task

The AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative will host a Sept.

The QualityNet system has not yet been updated to reflect changes to electronic clinical quality measure reporting requirements for calendar year 2017 under the fiscal year 2018 inpatient prospecti

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has