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As National Hospital Week draws to a close it is worth reflecting on how those blue and white signs with the big "H" have always carried the promise of help, hope and healing.
At last week’s AHA Annual Membership Meeting, the association recognized people and organizations that improve America’s health care.
A federal district judge yesterday rejected a Federal Trade Commission challenge of a proposed merger between Penn State Hershey Medical Center and PinnacleHealth System, denying the agency’s
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology yesterday announced $1.5 million in funding to test selected clinical interoperabil
Louisiana hospitals generate more than $31.6 billion annually in state business activity and directly employ more than 103,000 people, according to a
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed payment model for Medicare Part B drugs should not include hospitals, which “have little control over which drugs physicians p
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday released an interim final rule&nb
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a May 12 webinar&nbs
A panel of health care pharmaceutical experts May 3 offered a range of approaches to help rein in what all agreed is an unsustainable increase in prescription drug prices during an executive briefi
The two major proposed mergers in the health insurance sector – Aetna-Humana and Anthem-Cigna – should trouble providers and consumers, because evidence suggests health plan consolidati
About 17% of working-age adults lacked a usual place for medical care when surveyed in 2014, ranging from 3% in Vermont to 27% in Nevada, according to a new
Almost half of seniors with severely impaired vision reported falling in 2014, compared with one in three seniors overall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.45% in April to a seasonally adjusted 5,065,400 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Post-acute care (PAC) providers are critical partners in the transition toward a more integrated, value-based delivery system, panelists said at a May 1 special AHA Annual meeting briefing.
Speaking May 1 at a diversity roundtable at the AHA annual meeting, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) official expressed her support for the AHA’s #123forEquity Pledge to E
Patrick Conway, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services deputy administrator for innovation and quality and chief medical officer, this week indicated that the agency will consider giving hosp
First-year enrollment at U.S.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today launched “Clean Hands Count,” a campaign promoting
Participants at this week’s AHA Annual Membership Meeting got a preview of a new AHA video honoring the more tha