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The AHA today released a toolkit to help hospitals and health systems in vulnerable rural and urban communities engage their communities in discussions on how to ensure continued access to essential health care services. 鈥淭hese conversations will be critical as you work collaboratively to identify鈥
Health care volunteers with big hearts and high hopes last March brought 鈥淪treet Medicine鈥 to the homeless of Sioux City, Iowa.
The Senate yesterday voted 45-55 to reject the Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Ac. The legislation was similar to a 2015 bill passed by the Congress, but vetoed by President Obama to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without replacement.Senate debate is expected to continue today. Once鈥
The Health Resources and Services Administration today awarded $6 million to help repay student loans for 104 clinicians committed to serving three years in high-need communities affected by the Zika virus in Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Office on Women鈥檚 Health yesterday awarded 16 organizations about $100,000 each to help prevent opioid misuse by women and girls in underserved communities.
The Health Resources and Services Administration鈥檚 Workplace Partnership for Life Hospital Organ Donation Campaign recently recognized more than 1,000 hospitals and transplant centers, including 296 small and rural hospitals, for outstanding efforts to promote organ donation awareness鈥
The AHA Quest for Quality Prize will be back in 2018 with a new sponsor 鈥 health care software designer RL Solutions. Presented annually since 2002 to recognize health care leadership and innovation in improving quality and advancing health in communities, the prize was on hiatus for 2017鈥
The AHA will honor this year鈥檚 Most Wired hospitals during a Twitter chat July 28 during the AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego. The chat will feature the award winners and explore how health information technology is helping to improve patient care and population health in communities鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released the proposed rule for the home health prospective payment system for calendar year 2018, which also proposes major HH PPS refinements for CY 2019. For CY 2018, the rule would decrease net HH payments by 0.4 percentage point, or $80鈥
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday issued updated recommendations for health care providers caring for pregnant women with possible Zika virus exposure. In the updated guidance, CDC no longer recommends the routine testing of women with possible recent exposure to Zika virus鈥