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The AHA Board of Trustees elected Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., chief executive officer and president of Dartmouth Health, as its chair-elect designate.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack opened the AHA Leadership Summit discussing several challenges the hospital field currently faces.
A third and fourth dose of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine provided additional protection to eligible adults, the CDC reported Friday.
Many factors pose an immediate threat to hospitals’ ability to deliver care, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack writes in an advertorial in the Wall Street Journal.
More than 1,200 hospital and health system leaders came together in San Diego beginning yesterday for the 2022 AHA Leadership Summit.
CMS late today issued a proposed rule that would increase Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system rates by a net 2.7% in calendar year 2023 compared to 2022. 
Sens. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., are asking their colleagues to sign a letter by July 21 urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to revise the hospital inpatient prospective payment system rule for fiscal year 2023 to more accurately reflect the cost of…
Priya Bathija, AHA’s vice president of strategic initiatives, shares digital health strategies from CommonSpirit Health and Boston Medical Center to help expecting and new moms communicate with their care teams.
A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposal to pause public reporting on the inpatient patient safety indicator measure for one year due to the pandemic “is not only consistent with a commitment to transparency, but important for maintaining the credibility of the information shared…
Immunocompromised people age 12 and older experience fewer local and systemic reactions after receiving a COVID-19 mRNA booster than after the third primary dose, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. The findings are based on responses to CDC’s voluntary V-safe virtual health…