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AHA today urged the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to extend at least through May 23 its reopened comment period for the interim final rule establishing an emergency temporary standard for occupational exposure to COVID-19. Comments are currently due April 22.?
Hospitals’ and health systems’ median operating margins declined by 11.8% in February and 26.7% year over year, according to a new report from Kaufman Hall based on data from more than 900 hospitals.
he Senate Finance Committee today released a report highlighting shortfalls in the nation’s mental health care system.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recently rescinded all respirator approvals issued to Pacific PPE Corp. at the company’s request.
The AHA and eight other national hospital organizations today urged Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to renew the COVID-19 public health emergency beyond April 15.
Health care providers who received Provider Relief Fund payments exceeding $10,000 total between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2020, must report to the Health Resources and Services Administration by March 31 on how they used those funds.
President Biden today submitted to Congress his budget request for fiscal year 2023.
The Food and Drug Administration last week revised its emergency use authorization for the monoclonal antibody sotrovimab to exclude regions where the COVID-19 omicron BA.2 subvariant predominates.
U.S. spending on health care is projected to grow an estimated 4.2% in 2021, down from 9.7% in 2020, as spending due to the COVID-19 pandemic fell, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported today.
Robyn Begley, chief nursing officer for the AHA and CEO of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, today issued a statement in response to a decision Friday in a Tennessee trial that convicted a nurse who made a fatal drug error of criminally negligent homicide.