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Blogs from AHA leaders and members on the latest health care issues.
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal wants you to believe that many of our nation鈥檚 emergency departments are incapable of caring for children.
Emerging research has confirmed what hospitals and health systems have been saying again and again and again 鈥 that 2022 was among the most financially challenging year the hospital field has experienced, and that recovery remains challenging.
A recent paper funded by the objective-sounding organization the 鈥淣ational Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation鈥 adds to the growing list of commercial health insurer-backed, bias-riddled research aimed at diverting attention away from that industry鈥檚 troubling practices. This鈥
The American Society for Health Care Risk Management will host the鈥疉SHRM23 Annual Conference鈥疧ct. 1-4 in Minneapolis. This conference brings together professionals from across the health care risk management sector.
The Medicaid program now faces the most significant coverage challenge in more than a decade. Consequently, over the past few months, hospitals have started to see a substantial increase in uncompensated care.
The 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) believes that no health care worker should experience barriers to seeking or receiving behavioral health care. Consistent with that commitment, we encourage hospitals to examine any practices impacting whether health care providers seek behavioral health care鈥
For National Suicide Prevention Month and National Physician Suicide Awareness Day, the Zero Suicide Institute and the Suicide Prevention in the Health Care Workforce guide provides strategies for preventing suicide in physicians and health care workers.
The Society for Health Care Strategy & Market Development will host the SHSMD23 Connections Conference Sept. 10 鈥 12 in Chicago.
Given the historic financial pressures borne by hospitals and health systems over the last eighteen months, there is tremendous focus on organizations鈥 margins. Simply put, this metric tells us how an organization鈥檚 costs compare to their revenues and is one, but not the only, indicator of a鈥
Modern Healthcare鈥檚 putative report on CMS鈥 340B remedy proposal is completely wrong and irresponsible for the following reasons. First, to buttress its conclusions the article relies on quotes from an academic whose 340B research is funded in whole or in part by an organization with an anti-鈥