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The House Education & Labor Subcommittee on Workforce Protections held a hearing on science-based strategies to protect workers from COVID-19.
President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, which includes a number of provisions that affect hospitals and health systems.
The AHA, American Health Care Association, National Association for Home Care & Hospice, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, and Association for Clinical Oncology urged congressional leaders to extend the moratorium on the 2% cut to all Medicare payments under budget鈥
A California state judge granted preliminary approval to a settlement agreement in antitrust litigation alleging Sutter Health used anticompetitive practices in its contracts with a union鈥檚 health plans.
Trust for America鈥檚 Health released its latest annual report assessing states on 10 public health readiness indicators ranging from whether they have a nurse licensing compact so jurisdictions can borrow medical personnel and a plan to surge public health laboratory testing to the share of鈥
AHA urged the Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Office for Civil Rights to take a holistic approach as it deliberates changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
In this AHA Physician Alliance podcast, Dawn Sears, M.D., a gastroenterologist at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in Temple, Texas, shares how she applied skills learned from the Women鈥檚 Wellness through Equity and Leadership Project to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
The AHA released AHA Hospitals in Action: Supporting Care Teams, compiling hospitals鈥 and health systems鈥 stories on ways they are supporting health care workers鈥 well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the use of 鈥渓avender carts,鈥 time-out rooms and easily accessible mental health鈥
President Biden, citing the need for maximum flexibility in the nation鈥檚 vaccination program, announced a deal for the U.S. government to purchase an additional 100 million doses of Johnson & Johnson鈥檚 single-shot COVID-19 vaccine.
The House of Representatives voted 220-211 to approve the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, which includes a number of provisions that affect hospitals and health systems.