Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Societal Experts Action Network, which responds to policy questions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, released guidance on strategies to encourage protective behaviors such as wearing a mask, social distancing and hand washing.
Even though Congress has passed several bills that provide some relief for hospitals during the COVID-19 health emergency, more must be done, said AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack in an interview with Washington, D.C.-based WONK-FM.
The Department of Health and Human Services formally renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack released a statement of support over the Administration's announcement to extend the public health emergency.
On June 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued its calendar year 2021 proposed rule for the home health prospective payment system. Comments on the proposed rule are due to CMS by Aug. 24.
With COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths on the rise in much of the country, negotiations on the next COVID-19 relief package are picking up in the Senate.
As COVID-19 cases surge, Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville, Ark., faces growing financial and other pressures that threaten its ability to continue meeting its community’s health care needs.
The AHA and its members are partnering with the Department of Health and Human Services to encourage eligible patients who recover from COVID-19 to donate convalescent plasma, which contains antibodies that could help other patients fight the virus.
The Federal Reserve issued FAQs about the Main Street Lending Program facilities for nonprofit organizations, including the Nonprofit Organization New Loan Facility and the Nonprofit Organization Expanded Loan Facility.
The Department of Health and Human Services will devote $5 billion of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act’s Provider Relief Fund to enhance COVID-19 response at Medicare-certified long-term care facilities and state veterans’ homes, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…