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Nashville, Tenn.-based Saint Thomas Health’s local and state partnerships help the five-hospital system educate and enroll individuals in health insurance coverage throughout the communities it serves. The larger state-wide coalition, “Get Covered Tennessee,” includes health…
Hospitals reduced central-line associated blood stream infections (CLABSI) and surgical site infections by 46% and 19%, respectively, between 2008 and 2013, according to the latest annual report on healthcare-associated infections, released Jan. 14 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission today discussed two topics it expects to make draft recommendations on when it meets in March – hospital short-stay policy issues and next steps in measuring quality of care in Medicare.
The AHA today urged lawmakers to refrain from altering the Medicare graduate medical education financing structure to reduce direct or indirect payments to hospitals that train physicians and other health care professionals for the demands of a changing health care environment.
After five years at CMS, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner today told staff she will leave the agency at the end of February. Andy Slavitt, currently principal deputy administrator, will become acting administrator, Health and Human Services Secretary…
Stephen Shortell, a leading health policy educator and researcher, will receive the Health Research & Educational Trust's 2015 TRUST Award at the Health Forum/AHA Leadership Summit July 23 in San Francisco. Shortell is the Blue Cross of California distinguished professor of health policy…
AHA President and CEO Rich Umbdenstock and Kevin Lofton, CEO of Catholic Health Initiatives in Englewood, CO, will receive 2015 Gold Medal Awards from the American College of Healthcare Executives, ACHE announced yesterday.
The AHA invites applications through Jan. 23 for the 2015 Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership. Named after AHA President Emeritus Dick Davidson, the annual award honors a state, regional or metropolitan hospital association that demonstrates exceptional…
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission today announced its final recommendation that Congress increase Medicare payment rates for the hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems by 3.25% in 2016.
AHA's Hospitals & Health Networks magazine has launched its 2015 Most Wired Survey, which hospitals can complete through March 15. The annual survey measures information technology adoption, implementation and use in four areas: infrastructure; business and administrative management; clinical…