Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released guidance on using telehealth to expand access to health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
The Small Business Administration released an interim final rule implementing the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act, AHA-supported legislation enacted last week.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life in ways we never expected. For patients across the country, the cancellation or postponement of non-emergent surgeries, clinic visits and procedures delayed important medical care and financially devastated many hospitals and health systems, even threatening…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the methodology used to distribute funds to hospitals serving high numbers of Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured patients. The department this week stated that these hospitals would be recipients of an additional $10 billion in…
Loyola Medicine has maintained a strong partnership with its neighboring communities in Chicago’s near western suburbs. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, this health system-community partnership helped residents in these economically-challenged communities in many ways, including providing nutritious…
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities is accepting applications through Dec. 15 for funding to expand and improve digital health interventions to identify, treat and provide services for health conditions secondary to the COVID-19 pandemic in health disparity populations…
The Food and Drug Administration authorized the first COVID-19 diagnostic test with next generation sequencing, which can generate information about the genomic sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
While the COVID-19 pandemic placed a pause on routine medical visits and non-emergency procedures, people are still giving birth and in need of support from hospitals and health systems.
About 60% of participants in a study of young adults infected with COVID-19 on a U.S. aircraft carrier had reactive antibodies to the virus, 59% of whom also had neutralizing antibodies at the time of specimen collection, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and…
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack wrote in a blog that hospitals and health systems face a triple-hit from COVID-19: skyrocketing costs of preparing for a patient surge; a forced shutdown of regular operations for non-emergent procedures; and treating a growing number of uninsured patients.