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Many of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposals to help stabilize the Health Insurance Marketplaces could make participation more appealing to insurers and consumers, but several “threaten consumer access to coverage and care, particularly for vulnerable populations…
Nearly half of deaths due to heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes in the U.S. in 2012 were associated with suboptimal intake of certain foods and nutrients, according to a study published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The largest numbers were related to…
Minnesota hospitals and health systems contributed more than $4.5 billion in programs and services to benefit the health of their communities in 2015, a 3.6% increase from 2014, according to a new report by the Minnesota Hospital Association.
Connecticut hospitals contributed $26.2 billion to the state and local economies in 2015, according to a new report by the Connecticut Hospital Association. Hospital health systems in the state provide 100,000 jobs, nearly every one of which produces another job outside the health system.
The Class of 2019 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year.Providing better behavioral health care services is a national priority for Rod Hochman, M.D., president and CEO of Renton, Wash.-based Providence St. Joseph Health. And he has made his commitment to the issue crystal…
House Republican leaders last night unveiled a legislative package to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has temporarily disabled access to electronic clinical quality measure Submission Summary and Performance Summary reports at the QualityNet secure portal to alleviate very slow processing times for Electronic Health Record Hospital Reports related to…
Nearly one in four U.S. adults report having doctor-diagnosed arthritis, according to a Vital Signs report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The estimate includes nearly half of adults with heart disease or diabetes and nearly one-third of adults with obesity,…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week released a mapping tool that allows users to view the prevalence of certain chronic conditions, behaviors and risk factors that have a substantial effect on people’s health for 500 of the nation’s largest cities. The…
The AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum will host a free webinar March 17 on “Preventing Physician Burnout - What Hospital Leaders Can Do to Make a Difference.” For more information and to register for the webinar, from 2-3 p.m. ET, click here.