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A new guide from the AHA Workforce Center offers strategies to help hospitals and health systems expand the behavioral health capabilities of their workforce.
AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative and the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare today released a guide to help hospitals prevent patient falls and associated injuries. The guide describes contributing factors and solutions to prevent falls, identified by…
The National Weather Service is surveying hospital leaders and others as it works to improve its weather hazard messages to understand the potential impact on key partners. The survey, part of NWS’s Hazard Simplification Project, will assess the extent to which organizations in various…
The AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Engineering today named as its new executive director Patrick (PJ) Andrus, who currently serves as a deputy executive director for the society. “I am honored and excited for the opportunity to continue working with ASHE’s Board of…
Proposed legislation (H.R. 5122) to prevent the Secretary of Health and Human Services from enforcing a proposed rule implementing a Medicare Part B drug payment model would cost $395 million over a 10-year period, the Congressional Budget Office estimated today.
Hospital-level variation in readmissions for Medicare heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia patients rapidly declines in the first seven days after discharge, suggesting that most readmissions after seven days may be explained by community or household factors outside the hospitals’…
The fall issue of AHA's Great Boards newsletter features articles on governing community health partnerships, and increasing individual board member participation. The free quarterly newsletter examines hospital and health system governance trends and effective practices. To subscribe, click…
Diabetes has long been health care enemy number one in the South Dallas neighborhood of Frazier, where 60% of residents are unemployed and 33% live below the poverty level. State health statistics reported in 2010 that Frazier residents were nearly three times more likely to die of diabetes than…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday issued a correction notice to the fiscal year 2017 inpatient and long-term care hospital prospective payment system final rule, which corrects errors and inadvertent omissions of several diagnosis and procedure codes related to the FY…
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today awarded $13.4 million in grants to implement and test new pediatric quality measures. The six recipients will assess the feasibility and usability of the measures at the state, health plan and…