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Daniel Mendelson, M.D., associate chief of medicine and director of palliative care for Highland Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY, will serve as 2017 council chair of the AHA’s Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation. Kenneth Bowman, CEO of Van Matre…
The AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative and American Society for Healthcare Engineering will co-host a Jan. 17 webinar on workplace violence prevention strategies and emergency response plans. The webinar will feature safety experts from the International Association for…
The Health Resources and Services Administration today released a final rule on drug ceiling prices and civil monetary penalties for manufacturers in the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
Minnesota, Missouri, New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon and Pennsylvania will participate in a two-year demonstration program authorized by the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 that will pay certified community behavioral health clinics under a prospective payment system…
The departments of Health and Human Services and the Treasury Friday granted Hawaii the first State Innovation Waiver under Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act. Section 1332 allows the federal agencies to waive specific ACA provisions for states if the proposal would provide similar coverage to…
The number of drug overdose deaths per year rose 23% between 2010 and 2014, to 47,055, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 10 most frequently involved drugs included six opioids (heroin, oxycodone, methadone, morphine, hydrocodone and fentanyl);…
The share of Americans who reported driving under the influence of alcohol in the past year fell from 15.3% in 2002 to 11.1% in 2014, according to a recent report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The share of Americans who reported driving under the influence…
Ann Schumacher, president of CHI Health Immanuel Medical Center in Omaha, NE, is 2017 council chair of the AHA’s Constituency Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services. With a background in nursing and specialization in mental health care, Schumacher has spent most of her career…
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) today introduced a budget resolution for the remainder of fiscal year 2017 that would begin the process to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Dec. 23 issued preliminary guidance clarifying the 21st Century Cures Act provisions that impact off-campus provider-based hospital outpatient departments that had concrete plans for construction when the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 was…