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AHA today voiced support for the Protecting Rural Telehealth Access Act (S.1636/H.R. 3440), legislation that would make permanent several telehealth flexibilities provided during the public health emergency.
The AHA July 17 presented its 2023 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award to Meritus Health in Hagerstown, Md.; Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J.; and Rapid City (S.D.) Hospital (Monument Health) for their outstanding efforts to advance diversity, inclusion and health…
The AHA Board of Trustees elected as its chair-elect designate Christina (Tina) M. Freese Decker, president and CEO of Michigan-based Corewell Health. Freese Decker will serve as chair-elect in 2024 and become AHA chair in 2025.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack July 16 opened the 2023 AHA Leadership Summit in Seattle discussing the similarities of hospitals to Seattle’s famous innovators solving a problem and improving a service, such as Amazon, Starbucks and Boeing.
Responding to an Arnold Ventures-backed opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine attacking tax-exempt hospitals and the 340B program, AHA General Counsel and Secretary Melinda Hatton says the authors’ disclosure form speaks volumes.
The Federal Trade Commission July 14 voted 3-0 to withdraw two antitrust policy statements related to enforcement in health care markets, calling the 1996 and 2021 statements outdated. The Department of Justice withdrew the same statements in February.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration July 17 released a final rule requiring employers in certain high-hazard fields, including health care, with 100 or more employees to electronically submit data from their Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses and Injury and Illness Incident…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 17 released updated guidance for state surveyors assessing ligature risk in hospitals, which pertains to environmental safeguards for patients at risk of harm to self or others.
The White House the week of July 10 released a federal plan for collaborating with the private sector and others to implement the National Cybersecurity Strategy.
The AHA July 17 joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other organizations in urging the Federal Trade Commission to extend for 60 days the comment period for recently proposed changes to the premerger notification rules, form and instructions implementing the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust…