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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today launched “Clean Hands Count,” a campaign promoting adherence to the agency’s hand hygiene guidelines to prevent healthcare-associated infections. The campaign offers posters, factsheets and brochures that aim to raise…
Participants at this week’s AHA Annual Membership Meeting got a preview of a new AHA video honoring the more than 5 million people who care for patients, families and communities every day as part of America’s hospitals and health systems. Created entirely from real photos…
Reps. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), Dave Loebsack (D-IA) and Adrian Smith (R-NE) late yesterday introduced the AHA-supported Rural Hospital Regulatory Relief Act (H.R. 5164), which would permanently extend the enforcement moratorium on “direct supervision” of outpatient therapeutic services for…
A study published yesterday in BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal, estimates that more Americans may die from medical errors than from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Extrapolating from four previous studies based on data from 2000 to 2008, researchers from Johns Hopkins School…
Health care quality is improving overall, especially in hospitals, and more people have health care coverage and a usual source of medical care since the Affordable Care Act took effect, according to a new report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The report combines the agency…
Adding a spending per beneficiary measure to the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program in 2015 while decreasing the weight of the quality measures allowed some lower quality hospitals to receive bonuses, according to study published this week in Health Affairs. “High-quality low-spending…
About one in five working-age adults reporting serious psychological distress lacked health insurance when surveyed in the first nine months of 2015, down from 28% in 2012, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among those with health insurance, 45% had…
Foster McGaw Prize recipient. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston received the 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service May 3 at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting. Pictured here are Massachusetts General Hospital President and CEO Peter Slavin, M.D., and AHA Immediate…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule adopting the National Fire Protection Association’s 2012 Life Safety Code (with minor amendments) and most chapters of its 2012 Health Care Facilities Code for hospitals, critical access hospitals, long-term care…