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As part of Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, join AHA’s Joining Hands for Greater Impact series, May 26 at 12 p.m. ET, to explore how to address the unique challenges faced by Asian American and Pacific Islander communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Children and adults in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program used 26 million fewer mental care health services between March and October 2020 than during the same period in 2019, declining 34% for children and 22% for adults, according to preliminary data released by the Centers for…
The Food and Drug Administration updated its emergency use authorizations for two intravenous infusion therapies for outpatients at risk for progressing to severe COVID-19 disease.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasized that its new masking recommendations for people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 do not apply to health care settings.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released guidance on how states can receive a 10-percentage-point increase in their federal medical assistance percentage for certain Medicaid home and community-based services from April 1, 2021, through March 31, 2022, under the American Rescue…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will use $7.4 billion from the American Rescue Plan Act to recruit and hire public health workers to respond to the pandemic and prepare for future public health challenges, the White House announced.
In a study of more than 1,800 health care workers across 33 sites in 25 U.S. states, the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines reduced symptomatic COVID-19 infections by 94% in fully vaccinated workers and 82% in partially vaccinated workers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
AHA voiced support for the Technical Reset to Advance the Instruction of Nurses Act (S.1568), bipartisan legislation that would prevent a Medicare payment error from affecting nursing and allied health education programs and direct graduate medical education.
Although COVID-19 has been a significant contributor to the substance abuse epidemic, it does not explain the large number of drug overdose deaths between May 2019 and May 2020 — the most ever recorded in a 12-month period, writes Holly Geyer, M.D., hospital internal medicine practitioner at Mayo…
Join the AHA Physician Alliance for a webinar May 25 at 1 p.m. ET on data-driven solutions to workforce burnout, which can increase turnover and reduce patient satisfaction and safety.