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The AHA released AHA Hospitals in Action: Supporting Care Teams, compiling hospitals’ and health systems’ stories on ways they are supporting health care workers’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the use of “lavender carts,” time-out rooms and easily accessible mental health…
President Biden, citing the need for maximum flexibility in the nation’s vaccination program, announced a deal for the U.S. government to purchase an additional 100 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine.
The House of Representatives voted 220-211 to approve the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, which includes a number of provisions that affect hospitals and health systems.
Health care systems must partner in effective community-based approaches in caring for populations, write three leaders from Providence.
To advance its efforts and achieve stated broader goals of ending structural racism in biomedical research, NIH has issued a Request for Information focused on best practices to identify opportunities, make recommendations, and develop and implement strategies to eliminate or lessen health…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services revised the application process for the Medicare Shared Saving Program to give accountable care organizations more time to apply to participate beginning Jan. 1, 2022.
The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for a next generation sequencing test to aid in identifying individuals with an adaptive T cell immune response indicating recent or prior infection with SARS-CoV-2.
Cities, counties and other local governments may apply through April 20 for grants to work with community-based organizations to encourage COVID-19 safety and vaccination in vulnerable and underserved populations.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee held a hearing to examine the COVID-19 response and receive an update from the front lines of the pandemic.
In honor of International Women's Day, Priya Bathija, AHA’s vice president of strategic initiatives, embraces this year’s theme, Choose to Challenge, and urges health care leaders to take action to improve the health of all women before, during and after pregnancy.