Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities
鈥淐ongress should preserve the 340B Drug Pricing Program and protect patients and communities,鈥 writes AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels in an AHA Stat blog post. He notes, 鈥淓very day, we see stories about the exorbitant costs of prescription drugs and the serious challenges they pose for鈥
Emerging Strategies to Ensure Access to Health
The Health Insurance Marketplaces continue to face challenges related to plan pricing and participation, putting consumer access to coverage at risk. We believe many of today鈥檚 proposals have the potential to make participation in the marketplaces more appealing to insurers and consumers, such as鈥
The AHA has released a replay of its Feb. 6 webcast on innovative strategies to preserve access to essential health services in vulnerable rural and urban communities, recorded at the Rural Health Care Leadership Conference in Phoenix. During the webcast, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and鈥
What are vulnerable communities? They鈥檙e communities in rural and inner-city America that lack access to primary care or are hobbled by a poor economy, high rates of uninsured and low health literacy, among other things.
For the millions of Americans who live in them, the local hospital is an鈥
The AHA today released a discussion guide to help hospital and health system board members and leaders implement innovative ways to preserve access to essential health care services in vulnerable rural and urban communities. The AHA鈥檚 Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities recently鈥
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack will host a live webcast Monday, Feb. 6, from the Rural Health Care Leadership Conference in Phoenix. During the event, Pollack and members of the AHA鈥檚 Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities will discuss the panel鈥檚 recent report on nine鈥
Rachelle Schultz, president and CEO of Winona Health in Winona, Minn., will lead the 黑料正能量 Associations (AHA) Section for Small or Rural Hospitals in 2017.
This week, lawmakers in Washington were sworn in for the new session of Congress 鈥 and Republicans took the first step toward repealing the Affordable Care Act. The Senate introduced a budget resolution implementing a special legislative process called reconciliation that could repeal some, though鈥
Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities