Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)

The National Academy of Medicine today released a discussion paper examining the experiences of hospitals and health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic, and opportunities to leverage the lessons of COVID-19 to support performance improvements to the sector more broadly.
In a letter to the editor published today by the Washington Post, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack responds to a recent article in the paper鈥檚 Business section, which suggested COVID-19 relief funds enriched 鈥渨ealthy鈥 hospital systems. 
Throughout the COVID-19 hospitals and health systems have been forging new partnerships with stakeholders to ensure ongoing care for their patients, health care workers and communities.
UCLA Health is rolling out its COVID-19 vaccination program looking at clinical risk and using a social vulnerability model and, at the same time, reassuring people about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines.
Learn how hospital and health system leaders such as Richard Bagley, senior vice president, chief supply chain officer, Penn State Health, are looking beyond the pandemic to address long-standing vulnerabilities in the health care supply chain during crisis situations.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced additional assistance under its public assistance program for eligible costs to safely reopen and operate certain private nonprofits in response to the COVID-19 emergency, including private nonprofit medical facilities.
All U.S. adults will become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine by April 19, President Biden announced. That鈥檚 a couple weeks sooner than the May 1 target he announced last month.
Johnson & Johnson will soon start testing its COVID-19 vaccine candidate in U.S. adolescents, the company announced.
In 2019, 1 in 5 women suffered from a mental health disorder. Now, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, even more women are reporting increases in challenges associated with mental illness as they continue to take on responsibilities they had not been prepared for.