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AHA had urged the agency to renew the emergency to continue critical flexibilities.
The market for pharmacy benefit manager services is highly concentrated, with commercial insurers often sharing ownership in the PBM, according to the analysis.
The guide offers resources to help organizations build a community health worker program to strengthen their health care workforce.
AHA's Institute for Diversity and Health Equity held its latest Health Equity Innovation Summit, which explored regional challenges and solutions to accelerate health equity.
The panel also recommended screening children aged 12-18 for major depressive disorder, as it did in 2016.
Kimberly Wells, CEO of Pinewood Springs mental health and wellness hospital in Columbia, Tenn., shares how the HCA Healthcare facility is integrating physical and behavioral health care to improve patients’ lives.
With the start of flu season, AHA is providing a new batch of Halloween- and autumn-themed resources for hospitals’ and health systems’ use to encourage influenza and COVID-19 vaccination. The October United Against the Flu toolkit includes downloadable plug-and-play social media assets,…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today recommended Moderna’s bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster for children aged 6-17 and Pfizer’s bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster for children aged 5-11 after the Food and Drug Administration authorized them for these ages.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response will host a Nov. 7 webinar on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to help hospitals and health systems manage emerging infectious diseases.
“For three decades, the 340B drug pricing program has helped hospitals that serve high numbers of low-income patients offer and expand a range of important programs and services that advance health within their communities,” writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack in the Congress Blog at The Hill…