The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration, announced awards totaling $107.2 million to 310 recipients to increase the health care workforce in rural and underserved communities.
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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The American Nurses Foundation has launched a suite of free tools and resources specifically designed to support nurses’ mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Experts discussed evidence-based best practices in dealing with trauma experienced by health care staff as a result of COVID-19 during a recent webinar hosted by the Joint Commission and the National Council for Behavioral Health. Healing strategies to promote resilience—for individuals and organizations—were also discussed.
COVID-19 Update for Rural Hospitals and Health Systems
White Plains Hospital works with community partners to address food insecurity and other health and social needs of its neighbors.
Nurses are being redeployed to unfamiliar units to care for the surge of critically ill patients entering hospitals globally. Learn how virtual orientation can help effectively redeploy your nurses.
The AHA Resource Center has created these ‘live’ searches to the latest research articles on COVID-19.
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 – home health (HH) agencies, skilled nursing facilities (SNF), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF), and long-term care hospitals (LTCH). However, the legislation could not account for the transformative changes implemented to the existing PAC payment systems following its passage.
On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, and our clinician partners – including 3,000 post-acute care providers, the American Hospital Association (AHA) writes in support of resetting the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 in the next COVID-19 relief package.
As humans, we respond to our environment. The physical space around us can — and does — affect mood, energy, creatively and productivity.
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Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., has partnered with Charlotte, N.C.-based Stanson Health, a Premier Inc. company, to develop an artificial intelligence-enabled solution for tracking COVID-19 transmission. The EHR-agnostic, free, real-time surveillance app sifts through volumes of ambulatory, emergency department and other provider documentation in real time for unstructured phrases that suggest COVID-19 symptoms such as, “loss of taste,” “trouble breathing,” and hundreds of other phrases that initially might go unnoticed.
Rogers Behavioral Health offers free resources on compassion, compassion fatigue, wellness and resilience strategies and other topics.
Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, offers a Senior Shape exercise program via Zoom, so older adults keep moving and stay connected to others.
Dear Secretary Mnuchin and Chairman Powell:
The AHA urged the Secretary of Health and Human Services to extend the public health emergency beyond its current July 25, 2020 expiration date so health care providers can continue to offer the most efficient and effective care possible during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
RE: Daily Data Collection on COVID-19 to Inform Critical Federal Decisions
Dear Dr. Birx:
AHA expresses support of the Knowing the Efficiency and Efficacy of Permanent (KEEP) Telehealth Options Act of 2020.
In a letter to Congresswoman Cindy Axne, the AHA expresses support of the Knowing the Efficiency and Efficacy of Permanent (KEEP) Telehealth Options Act of 2020.