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AHA board member Bruce Bailey’s hospital career transpired in an unexpected way.“I married a good-looking blonde whose father was a hospital CEO,” quipped Bailey, president and CEO of Georgetown Hospital System (GHS), a 298-bed, two-hospital system in coastal South Carolina.…
The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD, today admitted for treatment an American health care worker who tested positive for Ebola virus while volunteering in an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone. The hospital, which has a special high-level isolation unit staffed…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed new contracts for Medicare recovery audit contractors violate contracting requirements under the Federal Acquisition Regulations, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled this week.
The nation’s three leading credit reporting agencies have agreed to wait 180 days before reporting medical debt on a consumer’s credit report and to remove the debt from the report after it’s paid by insurance, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced this week.
Overall hospital prices increased 0.4% in February, and were 0.4% higher than a year ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Prices for the subgroup of general medical and surgical hospitals increased 0.4%, and were 0.3% higher than in February 2014, according to the BLS' Producer Price…
The Food and Drug Administration today issued final guidance for makers of reusable duodenoscopes and other reprocessed medical devices aimed at assuring that their cleaning and disinfection or sterilization instructions consistently reduce microbial contamination.
Hospitals paid under the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system can apply through 11:59 p.m. ET April 1 for a hardship exception under the Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans diagnosed with cancer survive for five or more years, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among the most common cancer sites, the five-year relative survival rate (compared with comparable cancer-free persons)…
A new AHA guide offers hospital leaders a model for hospital-based violence intervention that can be tailored to each community's unique needs. “As the location where many victims of violence seek medical treatment, hospitals and health care systems are uniquely positioned to address violence…
The AHA today released a new report detailing the 24/7 role of America’s hospitals and the challenges threatening this essential part of the nation’s health care infrastructure.