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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will host a Twitter chat Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET as part of National Influenza Vaccination Week. The chat will feature a CDC expert and emphasize the continued benefit of flu vaccination in December and beyond. Participate or follow the event @CDCFlu…
The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is now accepting applications for its 2016 Baldrige Executive Fellows Program. Designed for senior leaders, the program is a one-year, leadership development experience designed to facilitate dialogue on all aspects of leadership and how it relates to a…
By Michelle Gaskill-Hames The Institute for Diversity in Health Management’s (IFD) Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) lays a strong foundation for a career in health care leadership for diverse individuals. It also gives hospitals and health systems access to the next generation of health…
U.S. spending on health care grew 5.3% in 2014 – largely due to coverage expansion associated with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and rapidly rising prescription drug prices – following five straight years of historically low growth, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS…
U.S. spending on health care grew 5.3% in 2014 – largely due to coverage expansion associated with the Affordable Care Act and rapidly rising prescription drug prices – following five straight years of historically low growth, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended to Dec. 31 the deadline for submitting electronic clinical quality measure data for eligible hospitals participating in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program voluntary electronic reporting option. The extension applies only to…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released preliminary estimates underlying Medicare Advantage rates for 2017. According to CMS’s analysis, the Medicare fee-for-service baseline rate will increase by 3.1% in 2017. The FFS baseline measures traditional Medicare spending…
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration has created a new webpage featuring strategies and tools for preventing workplace violence in health care settings. According to OSHA, the rate of serious workplace violence incidents was more than four times higher in health care settings…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded $110 million in End-stage Renal Disease Network funding to seven groups. The five-year grants will support efforts to improve quality of care for individuals with ESRD who require dialysis or transplantation.
More adults have stable health insurance coverage as a result of the coverage expansion provided by the Affordable Care Act, the Urban Institute’s Health Reform Monitoring Survey reported today. The share of non-elderly adults reporting stable health coverage throughout the previous year…