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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today updated its Nursing Home Compare website to reflect a revised star rating system.
The Food and Drug Administration today issued safety recommendations to prevent possible microbial infections from reprocessed reusable duodenoscopes – flexible, lighted tubes that are threaded through the mouth into the small intestine to drain fluids from blocked pancreatic and biliary…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final methodology for determining federal payment amounts to states that establish a Basic Health Program for 2016. According to a CMS factsheet, the final methodology is the same as for 2015, with updated values for several…
The departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture today released for public comment a federal advisory committee’s recommendations for updating the Dietary Guidelines for Americans in 2015.
The Connecticut Hospital Association, Connecticut State Medical Society, Connecticut Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and Connecticut Department of Public Health recently endorsed a set of voluntary opioid prescribing guidelines for emergency department medical staff.
The AHA seeks hospital and health system trustees to serve on its Committee on Governance, Regional Policy Boards, and other governing councils and committees beginning in 2016. Interested trustees are invited to view the Call for Nominations and submit an application through Feb. 25.
At the recent AHA Health Forum Rural Healthcare Leadership Conference in Phoenix, AHA President Rich Umbdenstock and AHA staff briefed attendees on the latest rural health care legislative developments.
At the recent AHA Health Forum Rural Healthcare Leadership Conference in Phoenix, hospital leaders delivered a strong message to Congress urging it to protect rural health care. To see the videos from the conference, click here.
Through educational programs, summer internships, professional development initiatives, leadership conferences and other initiatives, the AHA-affiliated Institute for Diversity in Health Management (Institute) seeks to expand health care leadership opportunities for ethnically, culturally and…
Hospitals are ready for the ICD-10 coding system, the AHA said in a Feb. 11 statement to the House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee. Delaying its implementation beyond the planned Oct. 1 date “will only add additional costs as existing investments will be further wasted and future costs…