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Pennsylvania hospitals contributed nearly $115 billion to the economy in 2015, $4 billion more than in 2014, The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) reports. Those contributions include supporting more than 625,000 direct and indirect jobs, 34,000 more than in 2014.
Emily Friedman, an independent writer, public speaker, teacher and health policy and ethics analyst based in Chicago, died Sunday after a brief illness. She was 68. Friedman was a contributing editor of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, published by the AHA’s Health Forum subsidiary,…
Chuck Lazar, senior designer for AHA’s Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, recently received a Peter Lisagor Award from the Society of Professional Journalists’ Chicago Headline Club.
The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) will host its third National Summit on Advanced Illness Care Sept. 20-21 in Washington, D.C. AHA is a co-sponsor of the event, which brings together national leaders in advanced illness care. For more information or to register, visit www.ctacsummit.…
The AHA today expressed support for draft legislation in the Senate that would eliminate the “all-or-nothing approach” to meaningful use under the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records Incentive Programs.
The AHA yesterday urged the Internal Revenue Service to publish guidance affirming that hospitals may participate in accountable care organizations without generating a tax cost or incurring “the catastrophic loss” of their tax-exempt status.
The House today agreed to go to conference with the Senate on the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (S. 524), rejecting a Democratic-sponsored motion instructing conferees to provide funding for the bill’s treatment and recovery provisions. Both the House and Senate approaches would…
An estimated 28.6 million U.S. residents lacked health insurance when surveyed in 2015, 7.4 million fewer than in 2014, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The proportion of residents who were uninsured when interviewed for the National…
Medicare patients admitted to critical access hospitals for common surgical procedures are no more likely to die within 30 days than similar patients at other hospitals and have lower complication rates and expenditures, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American…
Hospitals, including those participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program, are the true safety-net, not the pharmaceutical industry with its “skyrocketing prescription drug prices and huge profits,” AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels writes in an AHASTAT blog post today.