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The Food and Drug Administration continues to recommend that health care facilities not use certain Custom Ultrasonics automated endoscope reprocessors to reprocess duodenoscopes, the agency said today in a safety communication. The System 83 Plus reprocessors were recalled in May, but remain…
A study published online today in Health Affairs compares prescription fills and out-of-pocket spending for a panel of 6.7 million prescription drug users before and after the Affordable Care Act’s implementation. The newly insured people filled, on average, 28% more prescriptions and…
The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has released proceedings from a recent workshop on community-level approaches to disaster risk reduction. The AHA was a sponsor of the event, which looked at specific strategies that can be…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision permitting an incumbent union of a hospital to organize only a small portion of the unrepresented employees in a partially organized bargaining unit.
The AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative today released a compendium of their toolkits to help hospital leaders, clinicians and patients examine the appropriate use of medical resources in five key areas: blood management, antimicrobial…
Healthcare Ready has activated its Rx Open mapping tool to help health care providers and patients in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas find open pharmacies in flooded areas. President Obama Sunday declared a major disaster in portions of southern Louisiana due to severe storms and flooding.
The Washington State Hospital Association today named as its next CEO Cassie Sauer, who currently serves as the association’s executive vice president. She will assume the role in January, when current CEO Scott Bond will retire after more than three decades in the health care field…
Michigan hospitals provided nearly 227,000 jobs and $2.9 billion in community benefits in fiscal year 2014, the Michigan Health & Hospital Association reports. The community benefits include covering the costs of $2.1 billion in unpaid patient care. For more information, click here.
The AHA today submitted comments on a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed rule revising several Medicare Conditions of Participation for hospitals and critical access hospitals. Among other provisions, CMS proposes to adopt specific non-discrimination language for the CoPs,…
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell Friday declared a public health emergency in Puerto Rico in response to the Zika outbreak.