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Blogs from AHA leaders and members on the latest health care issues.
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.
A recent article in the New York Times, 鈥淎 Little-Known Windfall for Some Hospitals, Now Facing Big Cuts,鈥 gives a thoroughly inaccurate and misleading view of the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
St. Louis Children鈥檚 Hospital launched the Healthy Kids Express Asthma Program in 2009 to address the number 1 diagnosis in the St. Louis public school district and number 1 reason for students missing school.
The work of building a successful dyad requires true partnership.
Comparing hospital prices to drug prices is absurd. And although the article claims to be about prices, the chart actually shows National Health Expenditure (NHE) spending numbers, not prices.
You can read inspiring stories from the field and individual members, watch videos and download a host of valuable resources at www.healtycommunities.org.
We previously raised concerns about the most recent 鈥淭he Price Ain鈥檛 Right鈥 study by a group of academic economists that attempted to link hospital co