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Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network’s (LVHN) Street Medicine program includes clinics in a number of area shelters and soup kitchens, a street medicine team, and an inpatient/outpatient consult service that has helped reduce emergency department (ED) visits while increasing the…
Gov. Phil Scott last week announced the Next Generation Medicaid Program, which will test a Medicaid accountable care organization model as part of the recently launched Vermont All-Payer ACO Model.
The Axios Vitals newsletter today published an AHA letter responding to its recent article by contributor Steven Brill on hospital CEO pay. “`Stay in a hospital, pay the CEO $56 a night,’ highlighting Steven Brill's short sighted attempt to correlate CEO compensation to patient…
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation today named as its next president and CEO Richard Besser, M.D., a former acting director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who currently serves as chief health and medical editor for ABC News. Besser will succeed Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D.,…
The AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative and its American Society for Healthcare Risk Management will co-host a Feb. 15 webinar on practical strategies for promoting a safe workplace culture. For more information or to register for the 3 p.m. ET webinar, click here.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today extended the deadline for inpatient and prospective payment system-exempt cancer hospitals to submit certain data to Medicare quality reporting programs, citing system issues and problems for some users accessing QualityNet reports. The new…
The AHA generally supports advancing new models of care for younger populations that could benefit from the Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, Ashley Thompson, AHA senior vice president for policy analysis and development, told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…
The Senate early today voted 52-47 along party lines to approve President Trump’s nomination of Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) to serve as Health and Human Services secretary. Price, who has served on the House Ways and Means Committee and as chairman of the House Budget Committee, spent most of his…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit yesterday denied the administration’s request to suspend pending appeal a temporary restraining order preventing it from enforcing a recent executive order on immigration.
The AHA seeks hospital and health system trustees to serve on its Committee on Governance, Regional Policy Boards, and other governing councils and committees beginning in 2018. Interested trustees are invited to view the Invitation for Involvement and submit an application through Feb.…