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Northern Maine Medical Center – Fort Kent, Maine
Purchase of Retail Pharmacy Enhances Services to the Community
In May 2018, Northern Maine Medical Center purchased a local retail pharmacy in an effort to improve patient outcomes, support patients’ medication adherence, reduce avoidable…
Hospitals are focusing on nutrition to care for all needs of their patients, sending them home with prescriptions as well as bags of healthy food.
As a part of the community health worker initiative, the AHA and the NUL hosted the Community Health Worker Consortium in Chicago, IL. Representatives from hospital and health system organizations, federal and state agencies, academic institutions and community-based organizations attended the…
Joint letter from AHA and six other national hospital associations to HHS affirming hospital and health system commitment to interoperability, while stating that Medicare and Medicaid conditions of participation are not an appropriate vehicle to achieve interoperability.
Hospitals and health systems have made great strides to improve quality of care. Public policies need to be revised to promote – not impede – continuous improvement.
Hospitals and health systems use quality measurement, quality improvement (QI) and adoption of hospital field standards and best practices to continuously improve patient care. Public policies around quality — especially the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) quality reporting and…
Plaintiffs essentially allege that they have a statutory entitlement to a government-funded windfall with every drug purchase they make through the 340B Program, and that the Secretary erred by decreasing the amount of the windfall in the final 2018 OPPS Rule. See, e.g., Plaintiffs' Reply in…
The ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association submits comments on how the Federal Communications Commission can encourage health care provider participation in its Connected Care Pilot Program.