Public
American Hospital Association content that is available to the public and all website users.
We are pleased that CMS has extended its enforcement moratorium on the two-midnight policy for an additional six months, as the AHA has urged.
Catherine J. Barr, president of Bethesda Hospital in Saint Paul, Minn. and senior vice president for community services, including long-term acute care, home care, hospice and palliative care within the HealthEast Care System, is the 2014 chair of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section…
Four generations are working side by side in hospitals and care systems today. Atlantic Health System, a large nonprofit health care system in New Jersey, has created an organizational culture that supports a multigenerational workforce. For example, to support employees age 50 and above—…
James W. Eyler, FACHE, CEO, Coliseum Psychiatric Center, Macon, Ga., is the 2014 chair of the American Hospital Associations (AHA) Constituency Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services.
The United States Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration office released a set of resources to assist hospital leaders in developing a safety and health management system--a proactive, collaborative process to find and fix workplace hazards before employees are injured…
The Missouri Hospital Association issued the Standardized, Plain Language Emergency Codes Implementation Guide. The use of standardized codes will increase transparency, reduce patient errors using a simple and practical approach and promote the safety of patients, hospital employees and visitors.…
Reginald Coopwood, M.D., president and CEO of Regional Medical Center at Memphis, will lead the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Metropolitan Hospitals as chair of its 24-member governing council for 2014.
Moving forward, we urge the Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) to take additional steps to more concretely enhance the alignment of quality measurement reporting and payment efforts.
The AHA supports several aspects of CMS’s proposed framework and measures list for the QRS. However, we are concerned that the measures list seems more like a list of available and potentially implementable measures, rather than a list chosen to advance underlying strategic priorities.