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For more than 20 years, Springfield, Mass.-based Mercy Medical Center’s Vietnamese Health Project has been a bridge between the city’s more than 5,000 Vietnamese residents and health care.The project addresses cultural and language differences to break down barriers to better care for…
In a letter today to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, AHA laid out actions that Congress could take to immediately reduce the regulatory burden on hospitals, health systems and the patients they serve. The proposals range from cancelling Stage 3 meaningful use requirements for…
Efforts to create a trusted exchange framework and common agreements for health information exchange should not disrupt working exchanges but focus on creating a more seamless network of networks, AHA advised the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in comments…
Commenting today on a potential alternative to Medicare’s current “RUGs” payment system for skilled nursing facility services, AHA said the proposed “RCS-1” replacement model would generally promote the strengths of hospital-based SNFs but called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking nominations to an interagency task force created by the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 to develop best practices for prescribing pain medication and managing pain. The task force will include hospital and other non-federal…
The AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative will host a Sept. 25 webinar on a program designed to care for hospital caregivers who experience a stressful event or outcome during patient care. Leaders from MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., will discuss their Care for…
The QualityNet system has not yet been updated to reflect changes to electronic clinical quality measure reporting requirements for calendar year 2017 under the fiscal year 2018 inpatient prospective payment system final rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports. Released this…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended the deadline for submitting assessment measure data to the skilled nursing facility quality reporting program for the first three quarters of calendar year 2017 so it can correct technical issues with the current Review and Correct…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services recently applied to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for a Section 1115 demonstration waiver to implement certain work and cost-sharing requirements for “able-bodied” adults in the state’s Medicaid program.
At its annual conference next month in Orlando, FL, the AHA's Society for Healthcare Strategy & Market Development will present its 2017 Leadership Excellence Award to Jeffrey Kraut, executive vice president of strategy and analytics for Northwell Health in New Hyde Park, NY. The award, the…