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AHA advertorial highlights how hospitals serve communities
“Hospitals are the heart of communities across America for one fundamental reason: They support patients whenever, wherever and however they need care,” writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack in an advertorial published March 17 in The Wall Street Journal.
CMS Hospital Price Transparency GitHub Updates
AHA policy staff hosted a webinar to review updates to the CMS Hospital Price Transparency GitHub following the recent changes to the requirements in the OPPS final rule.
Hospitals Beyond the Walls: Advancing Community Health
In this conversation, Doug Brown, partner with Manatt Health and current chair of the American Hospital Association's Foster G. McGaw Prize Committee, discusses how hospitals are tackling food insecurity, workforce development, safe neighborhoods, and other social drivers of health.
CMS announces centralized platform for managing independent dispute resolution operations
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services March 16 announced it will transition later this year to a new centralized platform for managi
Guidelines recommend cholesterol screening, treatment for individuals as young as age 30
The American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association and nine other medical associations March 13 released updated guidelines on managing cholesterol that include lowering the age to begin screening and treatment from age 40 to 30.
Encore: Fighting Hypertension Through Community Collaboration
In this Advancing Health encore episode, Duke University's Anna Tharakan, lead project manager on Closing the Gap on Hypertension Disparities, and Bradi Granger, Ph.D., research professor at Duke University School of Nursing and director of the Duke Heart Center Nursing Research Program, discuss how Duke’s team is closing hypertension disparities by integrating community health workers, student ambassadors and local clinics.
Louisiana hospitals launch program to support pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorders
The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) has launched its inaugural group of 11 Project M.O.M. catalyst site hospitals, marking a major step forward in addressing maternal overdose mortality across the state.
SHINE on: How Vanderbilt expanded its integrated care model for opioid-exposed infants
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is growing its integrated, multidisciplinary care for infants and children who have been exposed to opioids while in utero.
How Hospitals Are Reengineering Pediatric Behavioral Health Care
The AHA’s Integrating Behavioral Health into Pediatric Care: Hospital-led Solutions to a Growing Crisis report outlines five hospital case studies showing how systems are integrating behavioral health and pediatric care to address a growing clinical demand.
Peer Support Issue Brief
Hospitals and health systems are enhancing the way they deliver care to improve patient care and outcomes, prepare for the future and strengthen sustainability. One key driver to transforming care is expanding the non-clinical workforce to improve patient experience and outcomes and reduce clinical staff burnout. Peer Support Specialists (PSS) can play an impactful role in helping hospitals and health systems achieve these goals. PSS are people with lived experience, living in recovery from psychiatric and/or substance use disorders, who provide non-clinical, strengths-based support to others seeking individualized recovery guidance.