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The Class of 2017 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year.Every hospital is pursuing its own pathway to a more performance-driven future, says Thomas Miller, who is president of Division V Operations for Community Health Systems in Franklin, Tenn.
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) today introduced the Rural Emergency Acute Care Hospital Act, legislation that would allow Critical Access Hospitals and prospective payment system hospitals with 50 or fewer beds to convert to Rural Emergency Hospitals. REHs would provide only emergency care and…
A Senate appropriations subcommittee today approved legislation that would provide $153.2 billion in discretionary funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and related agencies in fiscal year 2016, $3.6 billion less than this year.
Ranking members of House and Senate committees with jurisdiction over federal health care programs yesterday urged Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell to finalize a 2011 rule proposing a process to ensure that states reimburse Medicaid providers sufficiently under the Medicaid…
About 12.3 million people enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program between Oct. 1, 2013 and April 30, 2015, increasing total enrollment in the programs by 21.3% since the start of the first open enrollment period for the Health Insurance Marketplace, according to a…
Pocono Medical Center (PMC) Chief Medical Executive Jonathan Goldner, M.D., has seen it happen too many times. Elderly patients suffering from chronic diseases are discharged from the hospital. Because they don’t follow their doctors’ orders, they soon are readmitted for more care.
The AHA today submitted recommendations to the Senate Finance Committee’s chronic care working group, chaired by Sens. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and Mark Warner (D-VA). The group, announced in May, sought feedback from stakeholders on ways to improve outcomes for Medicare patients with chronic…
The AHA today expressed concern that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services continues to propose measures for the Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Quality Reporting Program that are not central to treating the psychiatric disorder for which patients have been admitted.
Trust for America’s Health, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and UPMC Center for Health Security today called on the United States to take additional steps to prepare for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus and other emerging infections.
Many hospitals are implementing recommended strategies to engage patients and families as active members of the health care team, which can improve the patient experience and clinical outcomes and decrease use of health care services, according to a survey of U.S. hospitals by AHA’s Health…