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Community Hospital of Monterey (Calif.) Peninsula (CHOMP), part of Montage Health, took action two years ago to address the prescription opioid abuse crisis in its county of some 415,000 residents. The community-wide effort, called Prescribe Safe, has led to a sharp decline in the number of…
Thousands of uninsured Latino and other immigrants in South Philadelphia’s low-income neighborhoods go to Puentes de Salud (Bridges to Health) for health care, wellness – and hope of a better life.Since 2003, Puentes has provided low-cost primary health care, plus a range of social and…
A bipartisan group of 235 members of the U.S. House of Representatives today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide flexibility in implementation of the Medicare payment reductions for new off-campus hospital outpatient departments under the Bipartisan Budget Act to…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a request for proposals for Hospital Improvement Innovation Networks, which will commit to new goals to improve patient safety in 10 areas and reduce readmissions.
The National Quality Forum, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Hospital Corporation of America today released a “Practical Playbook” for creating or enhancing hospital antibiotic stewardship programs.
Hospitals and health systems support displaying quality information in an understandable and accessible way, but report cards must be designed with care, writes Nancy Foster, AHA vice president of quality and patient safety policy, in an AHASTAT blog post today.
The Class of 2018 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year. It’s the laying on of skilled hands carried out in the finest ethic of curing and caring that makes hospitals the special places they are, says Randy Oostra, president and CEO of ProMedica in Toledo, Ohio.…
The House Ways and Means Committee this week passed the AHA-supported Helping Hospitals Improve Patient Care Act, H.R. 5273, bipartisan legislation that would adjust Medicare's readmissions program to factor in patients’ socioeconomic status and allow more off-campus hospital outpatient…
The House Ways and Means Committee today approved by voice vote the Helping Hospitals Improve Patient Care Act (H.R. 5273). An AHA-supported provision of the bill would revise Section 603 of the 2015 Bipartisan Budget Act to move the grandfather date for off-campus hospital outpatient departments…
The number of Americans aged 40 and older who are blind or visually impaired is projected to double by 2050 to more than 8 million as the population ages, according to a study in JAMA Ophthalmology. Whites, women and older adults are expected to remain the most affected groups. African…