The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that Daniel Sisto, former president, Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS), will be awarded its 2014 Board of Trustees Award.
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The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that Russ Harrington, president and CEO, Baptist Health in Little Rock, Ark. will be awarded its 2014 Board of Trustees Award.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) announced today several awards that the AHA and its affiliated organizations will present during its 2014 Annual Membership meeting in Washington.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) will present its highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award, to Thomas M. Priselac, president and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles.
Today’s report contains some good news for patients but reminds hospitals and clinicians that our work is not done. The quality journey is a marathon, not a sprint; hospitals are not yet at the finish line, but they are on the right track.
Kimberly McNally, MN, RN, a trustee at UW Medicine in Seattle, today was named to the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association (AHA). The board is the policy-making body of the AHA and has ultimate authority for the governance and management of its direction and finances.
The bill introduced today would provide welcome relief to hospitals that are unfairly penalized by readmission penalties because they care for large numbers of poor patients, often with very complicated and multiple medical problems. It helps ensure that hospital performance improvement efforts are…
The American Hospital Association today announced its support for S. 2082, the Two-Midnight Rule Coordination and Improvement Act of 2014. Introduced today by Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Deb Fischer (R-NE), the legislation would delay enforcement of the Medicare inpatient admission and…
We are pleased that CMS has extended its enforcement moratorium on the two-midnight policy for an additional six months, as the AHA has urged.
Catherine J. Barr, president of Bethesda Hospital in Saint Paul, Minn. and senior vice president for community services, including long-term acute care, home care, hospice and palliative care within the HealthEast Care System, is the 2014 chair of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section…