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According to a recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey, 41 percent of hospitals claimed to be well-positioned to meet Stage 1 requirements; however, 53 percent reported that they are not ready and 6 percent of organizations did not respond.
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The Coalition to Protect America's Health Care today launched a national advertising campaign to urge Congress not to cut Medicare and Medicaid funding for hospital care.
What is it?Salina Regional Health Center tithes a portion of its operating margin each year to the Salina Regional Health Foundation's Community Health Investment Program (CHIP). CHIP provides grants to organizations that, like the hospital, are working to improve the health of the people in…
In honor of its broad-based efforts to improve the lives of the most vulnerable members of its community, Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center (MAHHC) in Windsor, Vt., is the recipient of the 2011 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service, one of the most esteemed community…
Medicare policy changes and payment adjustments often have significant and problematic consequences for rural providers. AHA is sensitive to the administrative burden and cost created by rules that fail to consider the unique circumstances of small or rural community hospitals.
An updated analysis by Tripp Umbach, a firm specializing in conducting economic impact studies, finds that an additional 83,000 jobs could be lost if the Medicare cuts to hospital care included in H.R. 3630 (legislation extending the Social Security tax holiday, unemployment insurance and the…
Fred Rothstein, M.D., president of University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, will lead the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Metropolitan Hospitals as chair of its 24-member governing council for 2012.
The U.S. Supreme Court should uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts individual mandate because the crisis of uninsurance substantially affects interstate commerce, the AHA and five other national hospital organizations said in a friend-of-the-court brief (insert link) filed today.…
Staci Covey, president of Guthrie's Troy Community Hospital in Troy, Pa., will lead the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Small or Rural Hospitals in 2012.