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Blogs from AHA leaders and members on the latest health care issues.
A recent opinion piece in The Hill paints an inaccurate picture of CMS鈥檚 site-neutral payment proposal, which is both bad policy and clearly undercuts Congressional intent to protect payments for hospital outpatient clinic visits and expanded services at certain off-campus hospital departments from鈥
Even as we work to close our knowledge gaps around long-term outcomes and care, it is clear that Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome merits greater attention.
CHW programs 鈥 which are in wider use overseas than domestically 鈥 hold enormous promise for delivering on hospitals鈥 commitment to advance health in their communities.
Every day, more than 130 Americans die from opioid-related drug overdoses. It鈥檚 clear that the opioid epidemic鈥檚 grip on our communities continues to be a major challenge. At the same time, we also see progress in addressing the problem.
AHA Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., shares examples of how Avera Health in South Dakota, WellSpan York Hospital in Pennsylvania, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System are implementing efforts to advance clinician well-being and reduce burnout. Read more.
Wendy Macias-Konstantopoulos, M.D., director of Massachusetts General Hospital鈥檚 Human Trafficking Initiative, shares how clinicians are key to stopping the cycle of human trafficking, and how new ICD-10 codes that went into effect Oct. 1 can help.
Join me in taking the CDC AMR Challenge to tackle the pressing issue of antimicrobial resistance in order to ensure a holistic, multidisciplinary approach in combatting AMR at the regional and national levels.
In times of distress, Americans turn to hospital emergency departments. They do so because they know that there they will find care 鈥 from simple stitches to sophisticated diagnostics to emergency surgery. And they know that, no matter what, they will not be turned away.
AHA Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O. highlights two podcasts from the AHA Physician Alliance series in which Allen Weiss, M.D., president and CEO of NCH Healthcare System in Naples, Fla., and Christine Stabler, M.D., vice president for academic affairs, Lancaster Health in Lancaster, Pa.,鈥
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) released yet another 鈥渞eport鈥 in an obvious attempt to divert attention away from a problem of their own making: skyrocketing drug prices.