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Chanda Chacón, president and CEO at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., talks with AHA about the hospital’s recently established pediatric mental health urgent care center.
Six national organizations, including the AHA, today urged congressional leaders to permanently expand access to the Affordable Care Act’s advance premium tax credits.
The two unauthorized tests look like authorized iHealth and Flowflex tests.
Topics of interest include priorities, benefits and limits of a patient experience survey in this setting.
The AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering recently updated its free tool to help health care facilities assess and prevent infection risk during construction, renovation and maintenance.
CMS Friday finalized policy and technical changes to the Medicare Advantage and prescription drug benefit for contract year 2023.
HHS will continue to include certain telehealth services in its risk adjustment program for qualified health plans in plan year 2022.
The ad spotlights the pandemic’s toll on the nation’s health care workforce, noting that nearly 45% of nurses encountered physical violence and over two-thirds were victims of verbal abuse in early 2020. 
The Point of Care Celltrion DiaTrust COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test may have been distributed to unauthorized laboratories, which could increase the risk of false results.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Friday issued recommendations for clinicians testing or treating patients for H5N1 bird flu.