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Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls are the leading cause of both fatal and nonfatal injuries; in 2012, 24 million nonfatal falls among older adults were treated in EDs and more than 722,000 of these patients were hospitalized, per the CDC…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is sharing with the field the survey guide its expert teams use to assess the readiness of designated hospitals to treat Ebola.
The AHA, Federation of American Hospitals, Catholic Health Association of the United States, Association of American Medical Colleges, and Americas Essential Hospitals today urged the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to affirm the District Courts judgment that the…
How is your hospital building a culture of health in the community? That is, a culture in which adults and children—whatever their ethnic, geographic, racial or socioeconomic circumstance may be—live longer, healthier lives and have access to high-quality health care when, where and how…