Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
The AHA Resource Center has created these 鈥榣ive鈥 searches to the latest research articles on COVID-19.
Please join AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels June 30 at 2 p.m. ET for a special live presentation as part of an AHA Virtual Advocacy Day. They will give the latest updates on the next COVID-19 relief package and provide resources and ways you can鈥
The Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response June 26 at 1 p.m. ET will host the next webinar in its series 鈥漇ecuring the Health Sector,鈥 which will focus on 鈥淐OVID-19 and the Use of Thermal Detection Cameras in the Healthcare鈥
The Food and Drug Administration has partnered with the Critical Path Institute and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences to launch the CURE Drug Repurposing Collaboratory, a forum for exchanging clinical practice data to inform potential new uses for existing drugs to treat unmet鈥
The AHA urged Congress to revise the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 in the next COVID-19 relief package to reflect new insights from the COVID-19 pandemic and the effect of recent post-acute care payment system reforms.
As front-line health care workers move beyond the immediate pandemic crisis, now is the time to reflect on the psychological toll, writes Jesse Burgard, a regional chief mental health officer for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and AHA Behavioral Health Services Council member. Read more in鈥
The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 was enacted, in part, to develop a unified payment model for the post-acute care (PAC) field, recognizing that payment needed to be modernized for the four PAC settings 鈥 home health (HH) agencies, skilled nursing facilities鈥
On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, and our clinician partners 鈥 including 3,000 post-acute care providers, the 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) writes in support of resetting the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (鈥
As humans, we respond to our environment. The physical space around us can 鈥 and does 鈥 affect mood, energy, creatively and productivity. It also has a big effect on health care workspaces, where innovative new designs are responding to COVID-19, but also to longer term trends in hospital care..
The Department of Health and Human Services said its Office of Minority Health will partner with the Morehouse School of Medicine to deliver education and resources on the COVID-19 pandemic鈥檚 impact on racial- and ethnic-minority, rural and socially vulnerable communities.