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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last month extended to March 16 at 11:59 p.m. PT the Medicare deadline for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals to submit electronic clinical quality measure data and to attest to meaningful use of electronic health records for calendar year 2017.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host a March 20-21 workshop in Washington, D.C., on engaging the health care system in building capacity to respond to public health and national security threats.

Republican leaders of the House Energy & Commerce Committee last week asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and four hospital accrediting organizations to provide certain information about the hospital survey process and CMS oversight of the organizations by March 23.

Congressional proposals to appropriate $10 billion a year from 2019 to 2021 to extend cost sharing reductions and reinsurance for the individual health insurance market would expand health coverage to an additional 3.2 million people and lower premiums by at least 40%.

The Joint Commission and National Quality Forum yesterday presented 2018 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards to a health system, network of children’s hospitals, and physician at the NQF annual conference in Washington, D.C.

The AHA Workforce Center will host a webinar March 21 on strategies health care leaders can use to engage millennials to leverage their strengths and accelerate organizational change.

The Food and Drug Administration Friday issued warning letters to all three duodenoscope manufacturers for failing to comply with a 2015 order to conduct postmarket surveillance studies to determine whether health care facilities are able to properly clean and disinfect the devices.

Nancy Agee highlighted the importance of a “culture of caring” and curiosity to “a high-quality, highly reliable organization.”

The AHA Physician Leadership Experience, available exclusively to AHA Physician Alliance members, teaches physician and administrative executives how to first lead themselves.

Iowa hospitals generate more than 132,000 jobs that add nearly $7.1 billion to the state's economy.

Please take the opportunity this week to share your work and resources on patient safety, safety culture and patient engagement with your community.

AHA supports efforts to expand the types of educational degrees that would be eligible under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments so as to increase the number of qualified laboratory testing personnel serving the nation’s hospitals and health systems.

A recent Idaho bulletin on requirements for state-based health plans in the individual market “may not be substantially enforcing provisions” of the Affordable Care Act.

Senators this week asked Health and Human Secretary Alex Azar and Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta to review whether Anthem or any other health plan’s emergency department coverage policies violate the prudent layperson standard.

The flu hospitalization rate rose last week to 86.3 per 100,000 people, although outpatient visits for flu-like illness peaked in early February and are on the decline.

Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.25% in February to a seasonally adjusted 5,143,400 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL), chairman of the Health Subcommittee on Ways and Means, will speak at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting on May 8 in Washington, D.C.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host a March 20-21 workshop in Washington, D.C.

Health care is changing…and hospitals and health systems are transforming to meet the evolving needs of our patients and communities.

The Campaign for Sustainable Rx Pricing released a digital and television ad urging Congress to pass the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples Act to lower drug prices.