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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services granted certain quality reporting exceptions to Texas acute-care hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, prospective payment system-exempt cancer hospitals, inpatient psychiatric facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will award a record $80 million in navigator grants to help consumers enroll in health coverage through the federal health insurance marketplaces in plan year 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services announced.
Alvin Hoover, CEO of King鈥檚 Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven, Miss., looks back at a year of challenges wrought from COVID-19, including the system鈥檚 strategic and operational shifts, issues facing rural providers, and the joy of distributing vaccines to the community.
The AHA presented two federal hospital leaders with 2020 awards recognizing their outstanding service to the health care field. Air Force Brig. Gen. John Bartrum, mobilization assistant to the deputy surgeon general, received the Award for Excellence. Air Force Lt. Col. Jason Richter, medical鈥
The AHA joined #FirstRespondersFirst, the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes鈥 Foundation, American Medical Association, American Nurses Foundation and Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare in launching All In: Wellbeing First for Healthcare, a call to action for health care organizations to prioritize鈥
The Environmental Protection Agency last week presented AHA鈥檚 American Society for Health Care Engineering with its 2021 Partner of the Year鈥擲ustained Excellence Award, the program鈥檚 highest honor, for its long-term commitment to fighting climate change and protecting public health through energy鈥
As part of National Minority Health Month (April), AHA shares takeaways from a conversation with the Henry Ford Health System and Islamic Center of America about their collaboration to increase COVID-19 vaccinations in the Muslim community around Detroit.
The Accelerating COVID 19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) initiative will enroll up to 13,500 adults aged 30 and over in a Phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate whether certain drugs approved for other conditions safely and effectively treat mild-to-moderate COVID-19, the National鈥
A recent Health Affairs Blog post by physicians 鈥済ives an incomplete account of the implications of allowing new and expanded physician-owned hospitals to bill Medicare and Medicaid,鈥 writes Shira Hollander, AHA senior associate director of policy.
Four in 10 transgender women surveyed in seven U.S. cities in 2019-2020 were HIV positive, including nearly two-thirds of African American/Black and one-third of Hispanic/Latina respondents, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.