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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded $110 million in End-stage Renal Disease Network funding to seven groups. The five-year grants will support efforts to improve quality of care for individuals with ESRD who require dialysis or transplantation.
More adults have stable health insurance coverage as a result of the coverage expansion provided by the Affordable Care Act, the Urban Institute鈥檚 Health Reform Monitoring Survey reported today. The share of non-elderly adults reporting stable health coverage throughout the previous year鈥
The Advisory Panel on Hospital Outpatient Payment, which advises the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding the appropriate level of supervision for hospital outpatient therapeutic services, will hold its next public meeting March 14-15 in Baltimore. Presentations for consideration鈥
The AHA today awarded its 2015 Shirley Ann Munroe Leadership Award to Vince Oliver, CEO and superintendent of Island Hospital in Anacortes, WA. The award recognizes small or rural hospital leaders who have improved health care delivery in their communities through innovative and progressive efforts鈥
Island Hospital, a 43-bed county hospital in rural Anacortes, Wash., (population 16,000) is a healthy hospital building a healthier community. But there were lean times before Vince Oliver came on board as its president and CEO in 2000.
Hospitals are making 鈥渟ubstantial progress in improving safety,鈥 according to a Dec. 1 report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that found a 17% decline in hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) from 2010 to 2014. That translates to 87,000 lives saved and nearly $20鈥
Hospitals are making 鈥渟ubstantial progress in improving safety,鈥 according to a new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that found a 17% decline in hospital-acquired conditions from 2010 to 2014. That translates to 87,000 lives saved and nearly $20 billion in health care鈥
The White House today released a federal action plan to accompany its updated National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States. The strategy sets four goals: reducing new HIV infections; increasing access to care and improving health outcomes for people living with HIV; reducing HIV-related鈥
Children鈥檚 Health Insurance Program plans and qualified health plans sold in the Health Insurance Marketplaces offer beneficiaries different levels of financial protection and benefits, according to a new report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The number of new cases of diabetes diagnosed in the U.S. declined significantly from 2009 to 2014 after steadily rising for 25 years, according to new data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The U.S. recorded 1.4 million new cases in 2014, down from 1.7 million鈥