Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources and Special Communications

 

AHA, AMA, ANA Issue Open Letter Urging Public to Wear a Mask to Stop COVID-19 Spread

  July 6, 2020 An open letter to the American public,

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, AONL and eight other nursing organizations have endorsed a proposed model of practice-academic partnerships between health care facilities and pre-licensure registered nurse and practical/vocational nursing programs.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offered strategies for optimizing facemask supplies in health care settings where stocks are limited.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) created a COVID-19 training website providing COVID-19 specific training for clinical staff.

To address mounting cases of COVID-19, the Trump administration is considering testing groups of people together, a strategy that would allow health officials to test more people with fewer resources.

Health departments across the United States are struggling to conduct effective contact tracing amid a steep rise in COVID-19 cases. Multiple factors have contributed to the inability of health departments to keep up, among them an inadequate number of trained contact tracers and suspicion and apathy among those infected or exposed.

In a letter to Congress, the AONL joined 340 stakeholders urging the nation’s leaders to make the telehealth flexibilities authorized during the COVID-19 pandemic permanent.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) yesterday announced

The AHA, Association of American Medical Colleges, Children's Hospital Association and Federation of American Hospitals, which brought a lawsuit challenging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ hospital price transparency rule, urged the Department of Health and Human Services to delay the effective date of the rule until the matter is settled by the courts.

Community HealthCare System has been working with local and state partners to prepare for and manage COVID-19 cases.

Like hospitals and health systems everywhere, Penn Medicine scrambled to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. But it didn’t take long for its leaders to come up with an iterative sprint process to quickly design, validate and scale much-needed services.

Hackensack Meridian Health is partnering with community organizations to help meet increasing needs for food and other essentials during the pandemic.

New AHA report finds that the financial losses for hospitals and health systems due to the COVID-19 pandemic have deepened.

A new AHA report finds that the immense financial strain facing hospitals and health systems due to COVID-19 will continue through at least the end of 2020, with patient volume expected to remain well below baseline levels. The report estimates total losses for the nation’s hospitals and health systems of at least $323.1 billion in 2020.

AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to temporarily extend certain waivers and make others permanent beyond the COVID-19 public health emergency to allow hospitals to provide better and more cost effective care to their patients and communities.