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In this National Suicide Prevention month and as National Physician Suicide Awareness Day approaches, Julie Goldstein Grumet, director of the Zero Suicide Institute, explains how a team approach can reduce suicide risks in the health care workforce.
About six in 10 physicians and residents and seven in 10 medical students say they experience feelings of burnout often, according to the latest survey by the Physicians Foundation.
The American Society for Health Care Risk Management named Tracy Melina of Nuvance Health 2023 Risk Management Professional of the Year.
A new white paper from the AHA details how integrating physical and behavioral health services can reduce the total cost of care, improve outcomes and improve workforce satisfaction.
AHA today participated in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Fall Immunization Kick-off Event for partner organizations, which focused on vaccinating Americans against COVID-19, flu and RSV to prevent against severe outcomes such as hospitalization and death.
This October through December under the Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare will reduce the beneficiary coinsurance amount for 34 Part B prescription drugs between $1 and $618 per average dose, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced recently.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on legislative proposals to prevent and respond to generic drug shortages.
The Senate, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) released an updated version of the Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act, which the committee plans to markup Sept. 21.
AHA today voiced support for a provision in the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378) that would suspend for two years the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital reductions scheduled to go into effect on Oct. 1, but urged House leaders to reject another provision that would permanently…
Christine Albert, chief experience officer for LCMC Health in New Orleans, will serve as president of the advisory board for AHA’s Society for Healthcare Strategy & Market Development professional membership group in 2024. David Grandy, vice president of innovation for Kaiser Permanente’s…