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Tina Lyon is a comforting presence for expectant parents at Sutter Davis (Calif.) Hospital. As a volunteer doula, she calmly coaches moms – and their friends and family members – through child birth.“Seeing that moment of birth when this couple becomes a family is the most…
The Maryland Hospital Association (MHA) is the 2016 recipient of the Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership for its work to improve health care quality, the AHA announced June 14.
The Class of 2018 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year. As hospitals and post-acute care providers (PAC) partner in the transition toward a more integrated, value-based delivery system, they need the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to remove regulatory…
By Betsy Ryan Hospitals and health systems across southern New Jersey were faced with a challenge that has turned into an opportunity. They conducted a joint community health needs assessment which reinforced what each hospital was reporting anecdotally: Emergency department visits with…
Cleveland Clinic’s mantra is “patients first,” says Brian Donley, M.D., the health system’s chief of staff. And he says his organization can’t put patients first unless it “understands the needs of our patients and the barriers to getting them the care that they…
The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will have sufficient funds to cover its obligations until 2028, two years earlier than projected last year, according to the latest annual report from the Medicare Board of Trustees. Still, that’s 11 years later than projected before passage of…
The AHA today expressed support for the Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act (H.R. 5547), bipartisan legislation that would promote cost transparency for health care consumers. “Consumers deserve meaningful information about the price of their hospital care, and hospital leaders are…
Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Al Franken (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Edward Markey (D-MA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) today urged the Department of Justice to challenge the proposed mergers of health insurance companies Aetna and Humana and Anthem…
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday issued a report summarizing previous research on how the expansion of Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act has made health care more accessible and affordable for eligible low-income adults. Among other findings, expansion…
Hospitals are making some progress to achieve health equity, but more work needs to be done, according to a biennial benchmarking survey released today by the AHA’s Institute for Diversity in Health Management. The survey found significant increases from 2013 in the percentage of…