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During the State of the Union address, President Trump spoke about how “America is constantly achieving new medical breakthroughs,” spotlighting Ellie Schneider, who was born in 2017 at Saint Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
AHA's The Value Initiative has released a summary of 19 hospital and health system strategies to improve health care affordability, spotlighted in its Members in Action series last year
The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization allowing qualified public health labs to use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2019-nCoV Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel, previously only available at CDC laboratories.
A new AHA resource debunks the top eight myths about hospital and health system mergers, such as misconceptions that they lead to higher costs for patients, large variation between public and private payment rates, and less access to care.
Homicide was a leading cause of maternal deaths in Louisiana during 2016 and 2017, exceeding any single pregnancy-associated cause, according to a study reported this week in JAMA Pediatrics.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing on potential changes to the annual inflation factor that the Census Bureau uses to measure poverty, which would have eligibility implications for a number of federal programs including Medicaid.
Among other highlights, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack hosted sessions with policy experts on health care implications for the 2020 election, Medicare for All, the future of the Affordable Care Act, and AHA's rural advocacy agenda.
The AHA will host a March 12 webinar on using Z codes to document social determinants of health, a valuable but underused tool for hospitals to improve the health and well-being of their patients and communities.
The Campaign for Sustainable Rx Pricing launched an ad campaign calling for Congress to pass bipartisan legislation to “hold Big Pharma accountable.”
Sue Ellen Wagner joined the AHA as vice president of trustee engagement and strategy, where she oversees the development of trustee education, tools and resources as part of AHA’s Field Engagement team.