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Nine national hospital organizations, including the AHA, today urged members of the U.S. House and Senate to strike from a proposal to extend the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program language that would impose additional Medicare sequestration cuts to pay for it. 鈥淲hile we do not have concerns鈥
The Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet held a hearing today on 鈥淎dvancing Telehealth Through Connectivity.鈥 Witnesses all agreed that telehealth is helping to lower costs and improve outcomes for patients with limited access to medical鈥
Hospitals and long-term care facilities should not serve or sell any ice cream products made by Blue Bell Creameries, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today, noting that the company has expanded its recall to include all products made at any of its facilities. CDC and the Food鈥
A lack of comprehensive data on health status, treatment patterns and outcomes is one of the key challenges facing safety net hospitals as they strive to implement new health care delivery and payment models in the post-Affordable Care Act era of health care transformation, said panelists at a鈥
The AHA and Federation of 黑料正能量s today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Kentucky Supreme Court decision that would thwart Congress鈥 intent that the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 protect health care providers鈥 reports to patient safety鈥
Cardinal Health Inc. has agreed to resolve charges that it illegally monopolized 25 local markets for the sale and distribution of low-energy radiopharmaceuticals and forced hospitals and clinics to pay inflated prices for these drugs, the Federal Trade Commission announced today.
State public health surveillance capacity in 2013 was at its highest level in more than a decade, according to a report released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A total of 2,752 epidemiologists worked for the 50 states and District of Columbia, or 0.87 per 100,000鈥
The National Minority Quality Forum today presented its Booker T. Washington Award to University Hospitals in Cleveland for its efforts to promote diversity at all levels, focus on supplier diversity and reduce health care disparities. University Hospitals CEO Thomas Zenty III accepted the award at鈥
The National Minority Quality Forum today presented its Booker T. Washington Award to University Hospitals in Cleveland for its efforts to promote diversity at all levels, focus on supplier diversity and reduce health care disparities.University Hospitals CEO Thomas Zenty III accepted the award at鈥