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Traci Carter, program manager of Raising St. Louis in Missouri, and Nicole Kozma, director of school and community outreach programs at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and BJC Community Health Improvement, discuss the scope of the Raising St. Louis program.
The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare Feb. 11 released a report highlighting how the health care industry can save $20 billion by transitioning from manual to electronic workflows.
Tom Engels is the new administrator for the Health Resources and Services Administration, according to its website. Engels previously held the same position in the first Trump administration from 2019 to 2021.
The AHA and more than three dozen other organizations Feb. 12 submitted a letter to leaders and other members of the House Judiciary Committee in support of the Congressional Review Act legislation introduced Feb. 11 that would overturn the Federal Trade Commission's premerger notification rules.…
House Republicans Feb. 12 released a budget resolution for fiscal year 2025 focusing on the Trump administration's agenda on border security, defense, energy and taxes.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked cuts to indirect cost rates for National Institutes of Health grants nationwide.  
The AHA and Federation of American Hospitals yesterday filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, urging the court to vacate nationwide the Federal Trade Commission’s noncompete rule. The rule would ban, as an unfair method of competition, contractual terms…
The Trump administration yesterday announced it issued executive orders authorizing 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports. Importantly, both steel and aluminum are used broadly for medical devices such as surgical instruments, prosthetics, implants, crutches, wheelchairs, plates and screws…
A federal judge in Rhode Island yesterday ruled that the Trump administration must restore frozen federal funding amid ongoing legal proceedings about the funds. U.S. District Judge John McConnell, who issued the initial order Jan. 31 to block the funding freeze, said the administration had yet to…
U.S. District Judge John Bates today ordered the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration to restore webpages that were removed in compliance with the Trump administration's executive order on gender ideology, pending…