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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Health Resources and Services Administration should disaggregate and analyze maternal health data for rural and underserved communities, and adjust maternal health program efforts to meet the needs in those communities, the Government…
The AHA urged the Census Bureau to continue to distinguish between different types of urban areas.
The Department of Health and Human Services will interpret and enforce the Affordable Care Act’s prohibitions on discrimination based on sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity, consistent with the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in Bostock and Title IX, the agency announced. S
Learn what design and engineering changes are under consideration by hospital and health system leaders like Bradley Pollitt, vice president of facilities at UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Fla., as they prepare for crises beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
Illinois health care providers may no longer order the monoclonal antibodies bamlanivimab and etesevimab until further notice due to rising prevalence in Illinois of the SARS-CoV-2 P.1 variant, which is not susceptible to the combination therapy, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for…
In honor of National Hospital Week (May 9-15), the AHA collaborated with Musicians On Call, a nonprofit organization that delivers the healing power of music, to release an original song and video inspired by the words of health care workers, honoring their work and sacrifices during the COVID-19…
Hospitals and health systems lost 5,800 jobs in April, as U.S. jobs overall increased by 266,000, according to preliminary data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A recent Lown Institute report ranking hospitals on what it deems as unnecessary services, tests and procedures attempts to make sweeping conclusions about hospital value based on data that are not only incomplete, but also not current, writes Ashley Thompson, AHA's senior vice president for public…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released interpretive guidance on hospital admission, discharge, and transfer notification requirements outlined in its May 2020 final rule on interoperability and patient access, which includes Medicare conditions of participation for hospitals,…
Effective immediately, Medicare will pay $750 to administer monoclonal antibodies to COVID-19 patients in their residence or temporary lodging and increase payment to administer them in most other care settings to $450 from $310 to better align payment with provider costs, the Centers for Medicare…