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Pfizer Inc. announced it will request emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2.
In this podcast from AHA’s The Value Initiative, UCHealth in Aurora, Colo., shares how it uses digital tools to give patients an individualized out-pocket cost estimate.
On this National Rural Health Day, Michelle Hood, AHA executive vice president and chief operating officer and president for the AHA’s Health Forum, shares her experiences leading health care organizations in some of America’s most rural communities.
More than 1.6 million people selected a 2021 health plan through HealthCare.gov Nov. 1-14, including nearly 804,000 last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.
Nineteen organizations representing physicians and hospitals, including the AHA, urged congressional leaders to support legislation to freeze thresholds for clinicians to qualify for advanced alternative payment model incentive payments for the 2021 and 2022 performance years.
“Our front-line caregivers are our greatest source for what works and what doesn’t — with many life lessons to be learned as we go,” writes Susan Stacey, chief nursing officer/chief operating officer at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children’s Hospital in Spokane, Wash., which…
In honor of today’s National Rural Health Day, the AHA has posted a series of blogs showcasing rural hospitals’ and health systems’ achievements in preserving local access to care in their communities and outlining the association’s rural legislative priorities for Congress.
In a push to compel more Americans to seek health insurance coverage and protect themselves from COVID-19, the AHA, American Medical Association, American Public Health Association and a host of other organizations, elected leaders, states, individual hospitals and doctors announced Get Covered…
The principals behind the federal Operation Warp Speed initiative expressed optimism that the Food and Drug Administration could soon authorize two safe and highly effective COVID-19 vaccines.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released guidance for celebrating Thanksgiving and slowing the spread of COVID-19 during holiday gatherings.