Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities
A new tool supported by the National Institutes of Health uses education, housing and poverty measures to rank and map neighborhoods according to socioeconomic disadvantage.
The AHA鈥檚 Health Research & Educational Trust is partnering with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Catholic Health Association of the United States, with leadership and funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation, to create age-friendly health systems.
The Maine health commissioner has appealed a court order requiring the state to submit to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services a state plan amendment ensuring Medicaid eligibility for qualified low-income residents.
AHA Statement to the Committee on Ways and Means for 鈥淗earing on Lowering Costs and Expanding Access to Health Care through Consumer-Directed Health Plans.鈥
Held May 31, 2018
Join the AHA Section for Small or Rural Hospitals as we feature the 2017 AHA Rural Hospital Leadership award recipient Bryan Slaba and finalist Erik Thorsen and their efforts to ensure access to care and improve population health in their rural communities.
Ensuring Access to Care
Wagner Community Memorial Hospital 鈥 Avera
Ensuring Access and Improving Population Health through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Care
Your zip code dictates your health; your hospital wants to change that.
Another week, another drug industry-funded consultant attempting to divert attention away from the high and rising costs of prescription drugs by attacking the 340B drug pricing program.
The number of Medicare Part D beneficiaries who reach the catastrophic coverage phase of the prescription drug benefit rose by more than 50% between 2013 and 2016.