Rural issues
President Biden today submitted to Congress his budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2023.
Representatives from AHA’s Rural Health Services Committee met in person on May 19-20, 2022 in Minneapolis. In addition to the standing Washington Report the agenda included discussions on:
Rural hospitals are community strongholds, serving as the key point of care for nearly 20% of Americans.
Responding to a request for information on digital health, the AHA March 4th urged Congress to permanently eliminate all restrictions on telehealth originating and geographic sites; continue to allow rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers to serve as distant sites for all…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday removed the Accountable Care Organization Transformation Track from the Community Health Access and Rural Transformation Model.
The Federal Communications Commission Friday adopted a notice proposing changes to the Rural Health Care Program, which provides funding to help rural health care providers expand telehealth services.
The following is a compilation of recent news from the AHA and its Rural Health Services
team, whose focus is to ensure that rural hospitals’ and health systems’ unique needs are
national priorities.
At the AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, AHA held an open dialogue on strengthening emergency management systems, which will translate into case studies, action plans and compendiums for the field as part of a five-year partnership with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for…
The AHA and Department of Health and Human Services, by way of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, have entered into a new grant to strengthen and reimagine the emergency management system for the nation’s health care and public health preparedness, response and…