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The AHA Board of Trustees has elected as its chair-elect designate Eugene “Gene” Woods, president and chief operating officer of CHRISTUS Health in Irving, TX.
The AHA Board of Trustees has selected as its chairman-elect for 2016 Eugene Woods, president and chief operating officer of Christus Health in Irving, Texas.
A new online tool from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows state-level trends in hospital stays
The AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust affiliate is surveying hospitals about their employee health and wellness programs to identify best practices for promoting employees’
From the board room to the bed side, parents are involved in the care and experience their children receive at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora.
The recent wave of increases in the cost of prescription drugs is straining hospital budgets and squeezing patients. 
The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will have sufficient funds to cover its obligations until 2030, the same year that was projected last year and 13 years later than projected prior to pass
At a hearing today on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s most recent hos
The next members-only Town Hall webcast will be streamed live from the Health Forum/AHA Leadership Summit in San Francisco on Thursday at 1 p.m. ET.
The AHA, Catholic Health Association of the United States, and Association of American Medical Colleges last week
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute today aw
An estimated 3 million low-income, uninsured adults have a serious mental illness and/or substance use condition, according to a new
Care Dimensions in Danvers, MA, will receive the 2015 Circle of Life Award on Friday at the Health Forum-AHA Leadership Summit in San Francisco.
The Department of Health and Human Services should not require the health plan identifier and other entity identifier in Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act transactions, the AHA to
More than 140 Medicare-certified hospices will participate in the Medicare Care Choices Model, which will allow eligible Medicare beneficiaries and those dually eligible for Medicaid to receive hos
Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, CO, will receive the 2015 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize on Thursday for its sustainable and pervasive achievements with respect to the Institute
The AHA encourages all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey by July 24.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today launched a “
Erlanger Health System’s trauma center in Chattanooga, TN, treated a police officer and two Marines who were injured in yesterday’s shooting at a military recruitment center and a reser
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday launched an online collection of federal res