Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
Every day the women and men of America’s hospitals and health systems continue the battle against COVID-19. As our heroes on the front lines care for our family members, friends and neighbors, the AHA is focused on three areas – relief, recovery and rebuilding – to support the field.
Rural Hospital Interventions for COVID-19
Resources and References
Statement on additional regulatory waivers from CMS from AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack.
A new resource from AHA helps hospitals and health systems think through in under an hour how to partner with other organizations to meet their needs during the pandemic.
On this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Darren Henson, director of operations at AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, talks with Lena Hatchett, professor at the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, about how despite the COVID-19 outbreak, her facility remains committed to…
The Economic Club of Washington, D.C., which provides a forum for business issues confronting the nation and world, tomorrow will host a virtual event to gather insights from AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and other leaders on their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for Abbott Laboratory’s SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay for the qualitative detection of COVID-19 antibodies.
Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health are conducting an online study to learn how stressors related to the COVID-19 virus affect the mental health of health care workers over time.
A trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases provided preliminary indications that hospitalized patients with advanced COVID-19 and lung involvement who received remdesivir recovered faster than similar patients who received a…
The departments of Labor and the Treasury are extending certain deadlines affecting employee benefit plan participants’ rights to health coverage, portability and continuation of coverage under COBRA, and to file claims or appeal denied claims.