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Executive summary of the report of the AHA Task Force on Ensuring Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities.
Press Release
Statement on the Nomination of Seema Verma as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Rick Pollack
President and CEO
American Hospital Association
Press Release
Statement on the Nomination of Rep. Tom Price as HHS Secretary
Rick Pollack
President and CEO
American Hospital Association
Press Release
Statement on 21st Century Cures
Tom Nickels
Executive Vice President
Government Relations and Public Policy
American Hospital Association
Press Release
AHA Unveils New Strategies on Ensuring Access to Health Care in Vulnerable Communities
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At the onset of the Community Health Center of Branch County (CHC) School Tele-health Program (the Program), Michigan ranked last in the nation for school nurse per well student ratio, according to the 2010 National Association of School Nurses and Healthy People Guidelines. Education…
Quality and safety are “top of the agenda” at urban and rural hospitals across the country. At Howard Memorial Hospital, a 20-bed critical access hospital in Nashville, Ark., a multidisciplinary team led a focused project to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI). Educating…
Full 2016 report from the AHA Task Force on Ensuring Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities.
AHA's feedback on the work the Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation are undertaking to develop a unified post-acute care prospective payment system.