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The AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering has released a playbook to help health care facilities create a capital renewal program to identify, prioritize and execute maintenance projects. “Allocating capital funding to maintenance projects is a continual challenge for health care…
Oct. 27 is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, an opportunity for the public to safely dispose of unwanted or expired prescription pills at sites throughout the country.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Department of the Treasury today issued revised guidance for states seeking a Section 1332 waiver of certain Affordable Care Act requirements.
Hospitals report improved preparedness for emerging infectious diseases since the Ebola outbreak in 2014.
Low-income, chronically ill patients who participated in a health system-based community health worker initiative in Philadelphia reported better quality of care and had fewer hospitalizations, shorter hospital stays and were less likely to need readmission than patients who did not participate.
One hundred thirty-eight members of the House of Representatives yesterday expressed concern with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposal to expand certain site-neutral payment policies to grandfathered off-campus hospital provider-based departments in calendar year 2019.
The AHA today expressed its opposition to an amendment included in the Department of Homeland Security’s appropriations bill in the House Appropriations Committee that would eliminate the per-country cap for immigrant visas.
HHS announced that it has activated its Emergency Prescription Assistance Program in Florida, allowing thousands of uninsured Floridians access to no-cost replacements of critical medications lost or damaged by Hurricane Michael.
Hospitals and health systems are working with their communities on a number of efforts to prevent workforce and community violence, AHA Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., said yesterday.
HHS has issued a request for information on how health care providers and health plans are working to improve care for Medicare patients with social risk factors.