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FDA is aware that there has been an increase in demand for IV saline. Manufacturers of these products have reported that this increase in demand is linked to increased hospital use, which, long with other factors, resulted in a shortage of IV saline in January 2014.
The “second curve” of population health involves an integrated approach to improving patient and community health. Three Dignity Health hospitals in Bakersfield, California—Mercy Hospital Downtown, Mercy Hospital Southwest and Memorial Hospital—have expanded population…
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today filed two related lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) challenging the ill-advised "two-midnight" rule for inpatient admissions that imposes regulatory burdens that could compromise care for seniors.
The AHA strongly supports the conclusions and recommendations in the draft report and urges NQF to adopt them as soon as possible.
The AHA applauds Kathleen Sebelius's commitment to improving health care and expanding access to care for all.
The American Hospital Association (AHA), in partnership with the state hospital associations, today announces the 51 individuals who will receive the American Hospital Association Grassroots Champions Award.
This article found that county characteristics are independently associated with higher hospital readmission rates, the strongest being measures of access to care. HSR reports that after accounting for patient-risk factors and community socioeconomic factors, as well as accounting for hospital…
The health care field leaves a large environmental footprint, but hospitals and health care systems like Memorial Hermann Health System in southeast Texas are working to change that. In 2006, when the health care system began tracking energy use at its facilities, it discovered its newest buildings…
AHA Launches the Symposium for Leaders in Healthcare Quality to Increase and Strengthen Focus on Qua
To further cement its commitment to improve quality and patient safety in America's hospitals, the American Hospital Association is launching a new forum the Symposium for Leaders in Healthcare Quality (SLHQ).
The AHA, ASHHRA and AONE believe that, in its current rulemaking, the Board has engaged in a process that is unwarranted, unprecedented and contrary to the administration‘s rulemaking goals by resubmitting, in essentially identical form, the Board‘s 2011 NPRM (See 76 Fed. Reg. 36,812).