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The AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative and Institute for Diversity in Health Management will host a free webinar Dec. 5 at 2 p.m. ET highlighting strategies that hospitals and health systems can implement to advance health equity, diversity and inclusion.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical education Nov. 29 will hold the second in a series of webinars on key themes from its recent Clinical Learning Environment Review Report of Findings for 2016. The webinar, which begins at 4 p.m. ET, will highlight four major areas of the report:…
The AHA is accepting nominations through Dec. 2 for its 2017 NOVA Awards. Leaders of AHA member hospitals and health systems are invited to nominate outstanding collaborative programs that improve community health status through health care, economic or social initiatives. Up to five awards…
The AHA Nov. 22 commended the Senate Finance Committee Chronic Care Working Group (CCWG) on the release of its recent draft legislation to address the needs of Medicare beneficiaries and recommended further refinements.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released two rules, one final and one proposed, to address eligibility and appeals processes for the Medicaid and CHIP programs. The final rule completes the agency’s work related to appeals, notices and Medicaid eligibility changes…
AHA today commended the Senate Finance Committee Chronic Care Working Group on the release of its recent draft legislation to address the needs of Medicare beneficiaries and recommended further refinements. “We appreciate the deliberate and thoughtful process undertaken by the CCWG to solicit…
The Measure Applications Partnership today published a list of 97 measures under consideration for use in hospital and other Medicare public reporting and payment programs, including about 20 measures for potential use in the hospital inpatient and outpatient quality reporting programs.…
Palliative care services are associated with statistically and clinically significant improvements in measures of patient quality of life and symptom burden, according to a study in today’s JAMA. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh identified 43 randomized clinical trials of…
Four of every 1,000 emergency department visits were related to adverse drug events, according to a study in today’s issue of JAMA. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examined nationally representative data from 58 U.S. EDs participating in the National…
The AHA encourages all hospitals to complete the ninth annual Information Technology Supplement to the AHA Annual Survey. The survey was mailed to hospital CEOs this month for their chief information officer to complete on paper or online by Dec. 16.