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The American Society for Healthcare Engineering yesterday recognized more than 20 hospitals for their work to slash energy use, reduce operational costs and free up more resources for patient care. The recognition is part of ASHE's Energy to Care program, which encourages hospitals to reduce…
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing and The National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers are surveying a nationally representative sample of 260,000 registered nurses and licensed practical/vocational nurses this month to learn more about the U.S. nursing workforce. “All nurses who…
Family caregivers provided an estimated 37 billion hours of care to adult relatives or friends with chronic or disabling health conditions in 2013, according to a report released today by the AARP Public Policy Institute. The authors estimate the economic value of that care at $470 billion,…
Five hospital-led partnerships to improve community health received 2015 AHA NOVA Awards July 25 at the Health Forum/AHA Leadership Summit in San Francisco.The winning programs are the Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative in Baton Rouge, La.; the Bithlo Transformation Project in Orlando, Fla.;…
The proportion of uninsured working-age adults declined 7.1 percentage points in 2014 among African Americans, 7 percentage points among Hispanics, 4 percentage points among Asians and 3 percentage points among whites, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and…
The Department of Health and Human Services offers meritless arguments to avoid an order to abide by the statutory deadlines for Administrative Law Judge review of Medicare claims appeals, the AHA and three hospital members told the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today, responding to the agency…
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, the nation has yet to meet 79% of a federal advisory committee’s recommendations to improve disaster preparedness for children, according to a report released today by Save the Children.
The AHA encourages all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey by July 24. The free web-based survey helps AHA gauge the impact of Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor program on hospitals and advocate for needed changes. For more information on the RACTrac initiative, including a…
Overall hospital prices increased 0.1% in June and were 0.7% higher than a year ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Prices for the subgroup of general medical and surgical hospitals increased 0.1%, and were 0.5% higher than in June 2014, according to the BLS Producer Price Indices,…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host two webinars this week on its proposed Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model, which would bundle payment to acute care hospitals for hip and knee replacement surgery. The 60-minute webinars, on July 15 at 1 p.m. ET and July 16…