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The AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative today released a compendium of their toolkits to help hospital leaders, clinicians and patients examine the appropriate use of medical resources in five key areas: blood management, antimicrobial…
Healthcare Ready has activated its Rx Open mapping tool to help health care providers and patients in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas find open pharmacies in flooded areas. President Obama Sunday declared a major disaster in portions of southern Louisiana due to severe storms and flooding.
The Washington State Hospital Association today named as its next CEO Cassie Sauer, who currently serves as the association’s executive vice president. She will assume the role in January, when current CEO Scott Bond will retire after more than three decades in the health care field…
Michigan hospitals provided nearly 227,000 jobs and $2.9 billion in community benefits in fiscal year 2014, the Michigan Health & Hospital Association reports. The community benefits include covering the costs of $2.1 billion in unpaid patient care. For more information, click here.
The AHA today submitted comments on a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed rule revising several Medicare Conditions of Participation for hospitals and critical access hospitals. Among other provisions, CMS proposes to adopt specific non-discrimination language for the CoPs,…
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell Friday declared a public health emergency in Puerto Rico in response to the Zika outbreak.
The historic flooding in southern Louisiana yesterday forced Ochsner Medical Center Baton Rouge (O’Neal campus) to transfer a number of critically ill patients to other Ochsner facilities, the hospital reports. Several post-acute facilities and nursing homes also were evacuated, according to…
Michael Bromberg, who served as executive director of the Federation of American Hospitals from 1969 through 1994, died this weekend. After leading FAH for 25 years, Bromberg served as vice chairman of the FAH board from 1995 to the present. He was living in New York, but remained active in…
Hospitals participating in the inpatient, outpatient and prospective payment system-exempt cancer hospital quality reporting programs have until Aug. 19 to preview their overall hospital quality star rating based on data to be added to the Hospital Compare website in October. Hospital-specific…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today proposed to clarify the hospital-specific limitation on Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital payments and its application in annual DSH audits.