Press Releases
View all of the press releases for the media on health care issues impacting hospitals and health systems.
M. Michelle Hood, FACHE, president and CEO of Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems (EMHS) in Brewer, Me., is the 2014 chair of the American Hospital Associations (AHA) Constituency Section for Health Care Systems Governing Council.
The AHA is deeply disappointed that the agreement extends the sequester on "mandatory" programs that includes Medicare provider payment cuts for an additional two years beyond their current expiration date in 2022 and 2023.
We are extremely disappointed that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will move forward with sweeping changes that may hurt hospitals' ability to provide outpatient care.
Susan L. Starling, president and CEO of Marcum & Wallace Memorial Hospital (MWMH) in Irvine, Ky. and a member of Catholic Health Partners, is the 2013 winner of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Shirley Ann Munroe Leadership Award.
America's hospitals are pleased that the Administration has issued the final rule implementing the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today awarded the Carolyn Boone Lewis Living the Vision award to Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene in Keene, N.H., for its work to improve the health of its community through actions that go beyond traditional hospital care.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today named Jeffrey A. Goldman vice president for coverage policy for the national association representing America's hospitals.
We are pleased to support Senator Roger Wicker's (R-MS) bill, S. 1555, to delay for two years funding cuts to the Medicare and Medicaid Disproportionate Share (DSH) programs.
Today, CMS tried but failed to provide the hospital field with much needed information on the two-midnight policy.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has selected eight new members to its Board of Trustees for three-year terms beginning January 1, 2014. In addition, the board appointed one new member to fill a one-year vacancy.