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Stacey Hughes, AHA’s executive vice president for government relations and public policy, discussed key messages that hospital and health system leaders should share with their lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack began AHA’s 2024 Annual Meeting remarking on the essential work of hospitals and health systems, as well as the many challenges they are facing, including workforce shortages, underpayment, supply chain issues and cyberattacks.
Former AHA Board Chair John Bluford describes how the Bluford Healthcare Leadership Institute, which introduces talented minority undergraduate scholars to health care administration, is training young and diverse talent to assume leadership roles.
One in five Medicaid enrollees have been disenrolled since continuous coverage ended last March, a quarter of whom remain uninsured, according to a poll released April 12 by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The voluntary Episode Quality Improvement Program for specialist physicians saved Medicare $20 million in its first year, the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission announced April 11.
ASHP tracked a record 323 active drug shortages during the first quarter of 2024, surpassing the previous record of 320 shortages in 2014.
Commenting April 12 on a proposed rule to strengthen oversight of accrediting organizations, AHA told the Centers for Medicare…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ revised “bulletin” for HIPAA covered entities and business associates using online tracking technologies only confirms that the original bulletin was “substantively and procedurally unlawful,” AHA April 11 told a federal court hearing its challenge to a…
Christina Campos, CEO of Guadalupe County Hospital in Santa Rosa, N.M., and Steven Summer, former president of the Colorado and West Virginia Hospital Associations, will receive 2024 AHA Board of Trustees Awards April 15 at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting in Washington, D.C., for their…
AHA has released digital tools to help hospitals and health systems celebrate National Hospital Week May 12-18, including a video, ad, toolkit, graphics and GIPHY library.