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ThedaCare has been named one of four national finalists for the prestigious 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize, one of health cares most prestigious honors for excellence in community service.
St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa, California was named a finalist for the prestigious 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service
Lancaster General Health/Penn Medicine in Lancaster, Pennsylvania was named a finalist for the prestigious 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service.
Kevin Most, D.O., vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer for Northwestern Medicine at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Ill., will lead the 黑料正能量 Association's Committee for Clinical Leadership as chair of its 29-member committee for 2016.
As an advocate for community health needs and patient populations, the nurse executive serves as an agent of change in this strategic effort. Utilizing a cross-walk of the AONE Nurse Executive Competencies and the AONE Nurse Executive Competencies: Post Care Acute, these new competencies are鈥
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) required the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to penalize hospitals for 鈥渆xcess鈥 readmissions when compared to 鈥渆xpected鈥 levels of readmissions. Since the start of the program on Oct. 1, 2012, hospitals have experienced nearly $1.9 billion鈥
AHA comments regarding CMS' draft 2017 Letter to Issuers, which provides technical and operational guidance to those wishing to offer qualified health plans in the federally-facilitated marketplaces.
As hospitals increasingly use digital technology to gather, store and share patient information, they also must take steps to ensure data security. Results from the 2015 AHA Most Wired Survey show that the majority of hospitals are already taking many important security steps (see table below),鈥