Women's Hospitals
On June 1, CMS published in the Federal Register a long-awaited proposed rule that would modernize the Medicaid and Childrens Health Insurance Program managed care regulations.
AHA letter to Representative Katherine Clark expressing support for the Protecting Our Infants Act (S.799/H.R. 1462).
The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physicians and hospital leaders a set of guiding principles for integration. Those six principles are:
Physician and hospital leaders with similar values and expectations aligned financial and non-financial…
On April 10, the CMS released a proposed rule that would apply certain requirements of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 to coverage offered by Medicaid managed care organizations, Medicaid alternative benefit plans and Childrens Health Insurance Program plans.
This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the adult population to the pediatric population to eliminate pediatric CLABSI. The hospital joined a national collaborative in December 2009 that focused on developing and sustaining a program that…
This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, details the report from the 2014 committee on research. Among other point, the authors highlight the following:
Children with cystic fibrosis have better lung function and survival rates if their body mass index is at or above the 50th percentile. A long-term quality improvement effort has led to superior nutrition at the CF Center. The hospital joined an improvement collaborative, funded by the Cystic…