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More than 1,000 health care facilities have joined the American Society for Healthcare Engineering’s Energy to Care program, ASHE announced today. The program encourages hospitals to reduce their energy consumption by 10% or more. Since 2009, participating hospitals have tracked more…
The American Organization of Nurse Executives has chosen as its next president-elect Joan Clark, senior vice president and system chief nurse executive at Texas Health Resources in Arlington. As 2016 president-elect, Clark will serve as AONE president in 2017. She currently serves as AHA’s…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration Friday updated a recent advisory urging health care facilities to review their procedures for cleaning, disinfecting and sterilizing reusable medical devices. The update rescinds one of the earlier recommendations…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today awarded $11 million to create six new centers to help health care facilities prevent the spread of infectious diseases. The Prevention Epicenters will study new and better ways to prevent the spread of diseases such as Ebola, successful…
President Obama Saturday declared an emergency in South Carolina due to severe storms and flooding in portions of the state, and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts. A boil water advisory and low water pressure last night in the Columbia area forced five…
A new book by the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) identifies challenges, opportunities and action steps for transforming advanced illness care in the United States. The AHA is a co-sponsor of the book, which includes an introduction by Rich Umbdenstock, AHA past president and CEO…
Hospitals’ performance on most quality measures was improving before the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program began in October 2012 and did not noticeably change during the first two years of the VBP Program, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg and PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend in Springfield, OR, treated victims in yesterday’s shooting at a community college campus in Roseburg. At least nine people are reported dead and seven were injured, several critically. The gunman is…
The risk corridors program will pay only 12.6% of 2014 claims requested by insurers, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday. The program collected about $362 million in charges for 2014 and received $2.87 billion in payment requests, so remaining 2014 claims will…
Efforts to improve quality of care for patients in minority-serving and racially integrated hospitals should focus on the lowest performers, according to a new study in Health Services Research. The study compared quality of care for surgical and pneumonia patients in hospitals with minority…