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The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today held a hearing on President’s Trump nomination of Stephen Hahn, M.D., to lead the Food and Drug Administration as commissioner.
Robyn Begley, AHA senior vice president and chief nursing officer for its American Organization for Nursing Leadership, and Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative, participated today in a panel discussion sponsored by the National Academy of Medicine’s Committee on the Future…
The National Center for Healthcare Leadership last night presented its 2019 Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award to Rodney Hochman, M.D., president and CEO of Renton, Wash.,-based Providence St. Joseph Health and chair-elect designate of the AHA Board of Trustees.
The House of Representatives today voted 231-192 to approve a continuing resolution that would fund the federal government through Dec. 20 and delay impending Medicaid cuts, among other provisions.
The AHA and Federation of American Hospitals today urged Congress to oppose S. 2860 as well as any other legislation that would repeal current law limiting self-referral to physician-owned hospitals.
The National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership today released the annual list of performance measures under consideration for use in hospital and other Medicare public reporting and payment programs.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released updated guidance to help health care providers diagnose and treat patients with vaping-associated lung injury.
Addressing social needs, increasing access to medication-assisted treatment and naloxone, as well as better integrating substance use disorder treatment with physical care are crucial steps hospitals and health systems can and are taking to combat the opioid epidemic.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today updated its Core Elements for Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs to reflect experience and evidence since releasing the elements of successful stewardship programs in 2014.
The Food and Drug Administration Friday approved the first duodenoscope with a disposable elevator component, a part difficult to clean and reprocess.