COVID-19: Caring for Patients and Communities
he Department of Health and Human Services began distributing $500 million in Public Health and Social Services Emergency Funds allocated to tribal hospitals, clinics and urban programs.
A collaboration between the Department of Health and Human Services and AstraZeneca is projected to make available 300 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, the first of which could be available as early as October, HHS said.
Hospitals can submit their stories of kindness in overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic by May 31 to be featured in Reader's Digest's Nicest Places in America 2020.
The AHA, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, and AdvaMed released clinically based guidance to support the safe reentry of medical device representatives into hospitals and other surgical facilities as they resume elective surgeries paused during the COVID-19 pandemic.
AdvaMed Joins AORN and AHA in issuing 鈥淩e-entry Guidance for Health Care Facilities and Medical Device Representatives."
The Trump administration introduced Operation Warp Speed, a $10 billion public-private partnership intended to accelerate development, manufacturing and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics by January 2021.
The House yesterday passed the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act 鈥 a $3 trillion COVID-19 relief package.
The AHA urged the nation's primary federal regulators for insured depository institutions to prepare to take prompt action to assist health care providers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic should the need to do so arise.
National Hospital Week 2020 may be coming to a close tomorrow, but our efforts to support America鈥檚 health care heroes and their hospitals and health systems are still going strong.
The AHA provided comments on a number of provisions affecting hospitals and health systems that were included in the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act 鈥 a $3 trillion COVID-19 relief package that was unveiled Tuesday by House Democratic leaders.