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Maryjane Wurth will join the AHA on Jan. 28 as chief strategy and relationship officer and president and CEO of Health Forum, leading the organization’s business development, strategic planning, member relations and personal membership groups. Wurth currently serves as president and CEO of…
The New Jersey Hospital Association and the New Jersey Council of Teaching Hospitals have approved an agreement to transition the core functions of NJCTH into NJHA over the next year. “NJHA and NJCTH have joint members among New Jersey’s teaching hospitals,” said Leslie…
At an AHA-sponsored briefing today on Capitol Hill, hospital leaders shared with congressional staff the many benefits that the 340B Drug Pricing Program brings to vulnerable patients and urged Congress to preserve the program.
In commemoration of National Rural Health Day, the AHA today expressed appreciation to members of the Senate Rural Health Caucus and House Rural Health Care Coalition for their ongoing commitment to America’s rural hospitals and the communities and patients they serve.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seeks comments to inform its development of patient experience of care surveys for the inpatient rehabilitation facility and long-term care hospital quality reporting programs.
About 5.3 million uninsured adults with mental illness or substance use disorders are eligible for Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, but about half of them live in states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Act, according to a new report by the Substance Abuse and Mental…
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality today released a toolkit to help hospitals prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections, which is based on an AHRQ program administered by the AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust, among others. More than 1,200 hospitals…
The Food and Drug Administration today announced the first approved nasal-spray version of naloxone hydrochloride, a medication that can stop or reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. The agency granted fast-track designation and priority review for the nasal spray; previously the drug was…
At an AHA-sponsored briefing Nov. 19 on Capitol Hill, hospital leaders urged Congress to protect the 340B Drug Pricing Program, and shared with congressional staff the benefits that the program brings to vulnerable patients.
The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs today held a hearing on a Department of Veterans Affairs’ proposal to consolidate its purchased care programs and business processes into a new Veterans Choice Program, with the goal of making it easier for veterans to access care and non-VA…