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Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, CO, will receive the 2015 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize on Thursday for its sustainable and pervasive achievements with respect to the Institute of Medicine’s six quality aims of safe, effective, efficient, timely, patient-centered and…
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…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today launched a “dry run” test of its proposed star rating system for overall hospital-level quality. The test, which runs through Aug.
Erlanger Health System’s trauma center in Chattanooga, TN, treated a police officer and two Marines who were injured in yesterday’s shooting at a military recruitment center and a reserve center in Chattanooga. Four Marines were killed, and the shooter also is deceased.
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday launched an online collection of federal resources available to mitigate the health impacts of emergencies. Topics range from patient movement and hospital care to situational awareness and decontamination, with resources ranging from…
UCLA Health today announced it was a victim of a criminal cyber attack. The health system estimates that data on as many as 4.5 million individuals may have been involved in the attack, but said it currently has no evidence that any personal or medical information was actually accessed or…
Alaska Gov. Bill Walker yesterday alerted a state legislative committee that he intends to accept federal and state funds to expand Medicaid to low-income adults by Sept. 1, setting in a motion a state process that will allow the initiative to proceed within 45 days. Extending Medicaid to low-…
The next members-only Town Hall webcast will be streamed live from the Health Forum/AHA Leadership Summit in San Francisco on Thursday, July 23 at 1 p.m. ET. Panelists will cover the Supreme Court’s recent decision in King v. Burwell, Congress’ health care agenda, the 2016 elections and…
A hospital and county collaboration called Nuestra Vida (Our Lives) helps Latino residents of New Mexico’s Dona Ana County live a healthier lifestyle with diabetes.Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, N.M., and the Dona Ana County Department of Health and Human Services launched the program…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today posted the first star ratings to Home Health Compare, which are based on nine of 29 quality measures publicly reported by home health agencies for calendar year 2014. Medicare-certified agencies that reported data for at least five of the…