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Applications for the 2026 AHA Dick Davidson NOVA Award are due Oct. 14. The award recognizes hospitals that demonstrate outstanding collaboration with community partners to improve health outcomes and community well-being. Up to five winners will be honored at the AHA Healthier Together Conference…
The Health Sector Coordinating Council Oct. 7 released its Sector Mapping and Risk Toolkit, created to help health care providers and other organizations visualize key services that support essential health care workflows and determine which of them present critical risk of cyberattack disruption…
The AHA provided a statement of recor to the Senate Special Committee on Aging for a hearing Oct. 8 on the pharmaceutical and medical device supply chains.
A blog by Julia Resnick, AHA senior director of health outcomes and care transformation, discusses how the AHA’s Care Delivery Transformation Framework helps hospitals and health systems implement innovative care models.
Inova Health System’s Toni Ardabell, chief of clinical enterprise operations, and Sage Bolte, Ph.D., chief philanthropy officer and president of the Inova Health Foundation, share how aligning philanthropy with mission and clinical priorities allows Inova to accelerate innovation, expand high-…
The Senate last night failed a fifth time to adopt the House-passed continuing resolution to fund the federal government, continuing the government shutdown. The vote failed by a 52-42 tally, as Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Angus King, I-Maine, continued to side…
The AHA today released the Health Plan Accountability Update for the third quarter of 2025. The update covers the latest developments in Medicare Advantage, legislation and regulation of private health insurers, as well as other resources from the last quarter.
An AHA blog published today highlights how SSM Health is confronting workplace violence with a comprehensive, team-based hospital safety program that integrates staff training, facility design improvements and leadership commitment. READ MORE
The AHA Oct. 3 responded to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s recent analysis on the financial impacts of Medicare Advantage enrollment growth on hospitals, which found that increased enrollment is not statistically associated, on average, with all-payer hospital margins.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will update its immunization schedules for the COVID-19 and chickenpox vaccines to adopt recent recommendations by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.