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The American Hospital Association (AHA) today unveiled a report outlining a menu of options for communities, hospitals and policymakers to ensure that vulnerable rural and urban communities have access to essential health care services.
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At the onset of the Community Health Center of Branch County (CHC) School Tele-health Program (the Program), Michigan ranked last in the nation for school nurse per well student ratio, according to the 2010 National Association of School Nurses and Healthy People Guidelines. Education…
Quality and safety are “top of the agenda” at urban and rural hospitals across the country. At Howard Memorial Hospital, a 20-bed critical access hospital in Nashville, Ark., a multidisciplinary team led a focused project to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI). Educating…
Full 2016 report from the AHA Task Force on Ensuring Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities.
AHA's feedback on the work the Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation are undertaking to develop a unified post-acute care prospective payment system.
To improve community health, Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics (MGH&FC) in Shelton, Wash., has launched several programs focused on children's health. Nearly 25% of children in rural Mason County live in poverty, compared to the 18% state average. MGH&FC collaborated with the…
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