Headline
The latest stories from AHA Today.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its recommended practices to prevent and control infection in health care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tomorrow is the deadline for hospitals and other health care providers to apply for a portion of $20 billion in funds from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund.
The Department of Health and Human Services published a proposed rule that would require the agency to assess certain significant regulations every 10 years to determine whether those regulations instead are subject to review under the Regulatory Flexibility Act.
Pregnant women with COVID-19 are more likely than their non-pregnant counterparts to be admitted to an intensive care unit, receive invasive ventilation, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or die, according to a study of 461,825 women with symptomatic COVID-19 released by the Centers for Disease…
The Food and Drug Administration reminded clinical laboratory staff and health care providers to follow recommended steps to prevent false positive results from antigen tests for the COVID-19 virus, citing reports of false positives in nursing homes and other settings.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would like to partner with one or more organizations to enable centralized reporting from COVID-19 testing entities to public health departments, the agency said this week in a request for information.
The AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering presented its 2020 Excellence in Health Care Facility Management Award to Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health for implementing process, software and data changes that allow its maintenance technicians and leadership to view enterprise-wide data on…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services updated its Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program scorecard with additional state data on enrollment, per capita spending and administrative accountability.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a final rule that, among other updates and changes, allows certain new and innovative equipment and supplies used for home-based dialysis treatment of patients with End-Stage Renal Disease to qualify for an additional Medicare payment.
A federal judge in Illinois ruled the Department of Homeland Security’s public charge rule was invalid because it violated the Administrative Procedure Act.