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The AHA has elected seven new members to its Board of Trustees for three-year terms beginning Jan. 1.
Hospitals treated dozens of victims from mass shootings this weekend at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and hours later in downtown Dayton, Ohio, which together killed at least 31 people.
The Wyoming Department of Health plans to submit a waiver application that would expand Medicaid coverage to all Wyoming residents for air ambulance transportation.
Organizations that provide palliative or end-of-life care may apply through Aug. 16 for the 2020 Circle of Life Awards.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued a final rule that will increase Medicare inpatient prospective payment system rates by a net 3.1% in fiscal year 2020.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued its long-term care hospital prospective payment system final rule for fiscal year 2020.
Hospitals can review their scores for the fiscal year 2020 Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program at the QualityNet secure portal.
Employment at the nation's hospitals fell by 0.04% in July to a seasonally adjusted 5,238,900 people.
In a commentary published in Academic Medicine, experts outline how academic medicine, medical education, public health agencies, hospital associations and health systems can help small community and critical access hospitals overcome resource and other challenges to implement successful antibiotic…
One year after the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared an outbreak of Ebola, the outbreak continues in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, with 2,698 cases and 1,813 deaths to date.