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The AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Engineering, in collaboration with The Joint Commission, has released the first in a new series of resources to help health care facilities comply with the most challenging life safety and environment-of-care accreditation standards. Additional resources…
The AHA and Federation of American Hospitals today urged the National Labor Relations Board to affirm its long-standing position requiring the consent of both employers if a bargaining unit combines a sole employer’s workers with those found to be joint-employees with another employer.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Homeland Security on Monday will remove Liberia from the list of Ebola-affected nations subject to enhanced visa and port-of-entry screening, the CDC said today. The World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola…
A National Institutes of Health advisory group yesterday issued recommendations for creating and managing a national network of research volunteers for the president’s Precision Medicine Initiative. Participants would share their health data and a biological specimen for research to…
The Food and Drug Administration today issued safety recommendations for health care facilities that reprocess flexible bronchoscopes. The agency said facilities and staff should strictly adhere to the manufacturer’s reprocessing instructions, and immediately remove from service any…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services encourages hospitals to review their results from its “dry run” test of a new claims-based outcome measure for the inpatient quality reporting program in fiscal year 2018. Hospital-specific reports on the measure, “excess days in…
An estimated 90% of hospital workers report receiving a flu vaccine for the 2014-15 flu season, about the same as in 2013-14, according to a survey released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Coverage for health care workers in all settings was 77%, up from 75% in 2012-13…
The Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network, a forum initiated by Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell in March to advance health care payment models that promote quality and value, will host a summit on alternative payment models Oct. 26 in Arlington, VA.…
An AHASTAT blog post today looks at the likely impact of the proposed Aetna-Humana merger on seniors in Medicare Advantage. “Keeping Medicare Advantage affordable for seniors depends on robust competition among health plans,” writes Melinda Hatton, AHA senior vice president and general…
An estimated 33 million U.S. residents lacked health insurance in 2014, a decline of 2.9 percentage points or 8.8 million people, the Census Bureau reported today. That’s the largest percentage-point decline since 2008. Several Affordable Care Act provisions took effect in 2014,…