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A new guide from the AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative highlights promising practices for creating effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships to build a culture of health. “Building a Culture of Health means creating a society that gives all individuals…
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.33% in July to a seasonally adjusted 5,100,900 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. That's 17,100 more people than in June and 183,400 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of…
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday alerted pharmacy and nursing professionals to a voluntary recall of seven lots of an injectable drug used to treat certain serious bacterial infections, which may contain glass particulate matter. The Teva Pharmaceuticals Amikacin Sulfate Injection…
Ten critical access hospitals in Montana, Nevada and North Dakota began participating Aug. 1 in a three-year demonstration that will test new models of integrated, coordinated health care in sparsely populated rural counties, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced …
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently issued an informational bulletin to address questions regarding the ability of states to increase or add pass-through payments for health care providers under Medicaid managed care contracts and capitation rates. A May final rule …
Cyber attackers recently targeted systems that process payment card data at certain food and beverage outlets at a large health system, a reminder of the ever shifting and evolving cybersecurity threat landscape. The attack on Arizona-based Banner Health also affected some of its computer servers.
About four in 10 American Indian/Alaska Native adults reported smoking cigarettes when surveyed in 2010-2013, the highest rate among U.S. racial or ethnic groups, according to a study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One in four white and African American…
The 2016 Health Forum and AHA Leadership Summit, held July 17-19 in San Diego, brought together health care leaders to discuss ways to transform the delivery system for better quality and value; improve alignment between providers, physicians and payers; and achieve greater clinical integration.…
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Aug. 3 announced the launch of its first clinical trial of a Zika vaccine. The trial begins as the continental U.S. confronts its first Zika virus outbreak, centered in an area north of Miami, in which 15 people have been infected by local mosquitoes.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of an experimental vaccine to prevent Zika virus.