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AHA Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., yesterday participated in a panel on building a sustainable healthy community as part of the National Minority Quality Forum鈥檚 annual conference on health disparities.
The Drug Enforcement Administration continues to adjust manufacturers鈥 quotas for injectable opioid pain medications.
Coastal Meds LLC, which compounds drugs as an outsourcing facility, has voluntarily recalled all of its products marketed as sterile due to visible particles in some of the drug vials for injection.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released Spanish versions of its most popular materials to educate health care providers and consumers about appropriate use of antibiotics and prevent the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Print materials also can be ordered at鈥
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives recently launched the 2018 Most Wired Survey, which hospitals can complete through May 31.
AHA is asking hospitals and health systems to submit photos by May 1 showing their commitment to combating violence.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is appealing a federal court decision that barred the agency from enforcing in Missouri a 2017 final rule and earlier guidance.
鈥淭he 鈥楬鈥 in the future is going to look different,鈥 Pollack said at the panel, which was part of the University of Miami School of Business Administration鈥檚 conference on 鈥淭he Business of Health Care: What鈥檚 Next?."
The New Jersey legislature yesterday passed legislation to increase transparency in out-of-network health care services and create an arbitration system to resolve related billing disputes, sending it to the governor for his signature.
Delaware hospitals contributed almost $348.9 million in community benefits to the state in fiscal year 2016, according to a new report by the Delaware Healthcare Association.