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
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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
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
Reps. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), Dave Loebsack (D-IA) and Adrian Smith (R-NE) late yesterday introduced the AHA-supported Rural Hospital Regulatory Relief Act (H.R.
A study published yesterday in BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal, estimates that more Americans may die from medi
Health care quality is improving overall, especially in hospitals, and more people have health care coverage and a usual source of medical care since the Affordable Care Act took effect, according
Adding a spending per beneficiary measure to the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program in 2015 while decreasing the weight of the quality measures allowed some lower quality hospitals to receive
About one in five working-age adults reporting serious psychological distress lacked health insurance when surveyed in the first nine months of 2015, down from 28% in 2012, according to a new
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule adopting
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Acting Administrator
In remarks today at the AHA annual meeting, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) thanked AHA for educating committee members about the Standard Mergers and Acquisitions Review