As urged by the AHA, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued guidance stating that COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payments and Small Business Administration (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness funds should not be recorded as offsets to expenses on the Medicare cost report.
Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources and Special Communications
Below are links to AHA resources developed in response to novel coronavirus (COVID-19). For all coronavirus resources and news updates, visit our COVID-19 page.
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Download the Wear a Mask campaign social media resources on this page to help spread the word on the importance of wearing a mask to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Published last month, the first of a three-part survey report from The Physicians Foundation paints a sobering picture of the existential threat the pandemic has posed to many physician practices.
A new phishing campaign is using COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE)-themed lures to spread Agent Tesla malware. This difficult-to-detect remote access Trojan (RAT) provides attackers with a dashboard to monitor the malware’s keylogging and information stealing capabilities.
Letter from AHA to President Donald Trump urging additional support for rural hospitals and health systems.
COVID-19 erupted across the nation putting unprecedented stress on hospitals and health systems.
In 2020, identified as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife (a celebration of Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday), it seems almost surreal that we would be faced with a pandemic of the novel coronavirus. Nurses, as in the time of Florence Nightingale, provide a pivotal role in infection prevention, infection control, isolation, containment and public health.
Communication challenges during a crisis are not new to health care in the United States. In fact, over the last 100 years, disasters, including pandemics, served to highlight the vital role of communication to help staff understand, engage and rise to the challenges needed to provide care to our communities.
The AHA, the American Medical Association (AMA) and American Nurses Association (ANA) toge
This article presents two examples of academic-practice partnerships that continued during the COVID-19 pandemic. These partnerships enabled nursing students to obtain clinical hours despite the decreased census in hospitals created by the pandemic. This experience also yielded recommendations for schools and their health care partners in the event of future public health crises.
This press release about the Pathways to Clean certificate program details the wide portfolio of complementary resources for the EVS field.
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The fourth in the series featured Dr. Estes joined by Rachelle Schultz, President and CEO, Winona Health, to discuss COVID-19’s impact on health trends and services in Minnesota. This episode was recorded on August 27, 2020.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our lives in so many different ways. The lingering uncertainty, the toll on our well-being, and the way that we deliver health care is forever changed. As resourceful as nurse leaders are, we are not immune to the challenges posed by the pandemic. Our ability to innovate, mobilize, advise our communities and advocate for our staff has been remarkable. Since March, I have been privileged to witness firsthand the incredible collaboration and leadership of nurses across the country in response to this ongoing threat to our nation’s health.
“The pandemic is challenging us to design and deliver creative solutions to decreased availability of clinical settings yet still deliver effective education that meets professional standards and desirable learning outcomes,”
Saint Peter’s Healthcare System in New Brunswick, N.J., created a specialized COVID-19 Recovery Program to treat patients who continue to experience long-term symptoms post recovery.
To investigate the effectiveness for African American nurses of a leadership development collaboration between an urban baccalaureate nursing program and a large health care system, the authors of a qualitative analysis conducted in-depth interviews with 19 program participants.
As Florida’s population grew by 2.4 million over the last decade, the state’s per capita public health budget shrunk by 41%, fueling the surge of COVID-19, according to a recent article in Modern Healthcare.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the advanced practice leadership team at Emory Healthcare redeployed its nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) to create alternative care models.