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President Obama Saturday declared an emergency in South Carolina due to severe storms and flooding in portions of the state, and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts. A boil water advisory and low water pressure last night in the Columbia area forced five…
A new book by the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) identifies challenges, opportunities and action steps for transforming advanced illness care in the United States. The AHA is a co-sponsor of the book, which includes an introduction by Rich Umbdenstock, AHA past president and CEO…
Hospitals’ performance on most quality measures was improving before the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program began in October 2012 and did not noticeably change during the first two years of the VBP Program, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg and PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend in Springfield, OR, treated victims in yesterday’s shooting at a community college campus in Roseburg. At least nine people are reported dead and seven were injured, several critically. The gunman is…
The risk corridors program will pay only 12.6% of 2014 claims requested by insurers, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday. The program collected about $362 million in charges for 2014 and received $2.87 billion in payment requests, so remaining 2014 claims will…
Efforts to improve quality of care for patients in minority-serving and racially integrated hospitals should focus on the lowest performers, according to a new study in Health Services Research. The study compared quality of care for surgical and pneumonia patients in hospitals with minority…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host two webinars this month on its request for information to inform implementation of changes to Medicare payment for physicians and eligible professionals under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. Section 101 of the…
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.32% in September to a seasonally adjusted 4,939,400 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. That's 15,500 more people than in August and 145,900 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of…
Dame tu Mano (Give me your hand) is Elkhart (Ind.) General Hospital’s effort to coordinate health outreach to the county’s Latino residents.Latinos – mostly of Mexican descent – account for nearly 30,000 of Elkhart County’s 200,000 residents. They are leading a…
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee still plans to propose legislation this year to advance the interoperability of electronic health records, one of many reasons the administration should wait to finalize Stage 3 meaningful use requirements under the Medicare and Medicaid…