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  Every day, hospitals are successfully meeting challenges and providing quality care in their communities. The patient population at Manchester (Ky.) Memorial Hospital is largely illiterate. Though the 63-bed community hospital ensures that all materials sent home with patients are written at a…  
  Medicare and other federal programs must account for the special circumstances of rural communities.
  
  AHA recommendations regarding CMS' upcoming rulemaking for Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.
  
  Mary Ellen Pratt, MHA, FACHE, CEO of St. James Parish Hospital in Lutcher, La., will lead the American Hospital Association's Section for Small or Rural Hospitals in 2016.
  
  The American Hospital Association today announced that Margaret Wagner Dahl will be chair and Andrew M. Stern will be chair-elect for the AHA's 2016 Committee on Governance.
  
  Wayne Young, senior vice president, behavioral health, JPS Health Network in Fort Worth, Texas, is the 2016 chair of the American Hospital Association's Constituency Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services.
  
  The AHA applauds the new funding proposed today by the Administration to help people with opioid use disorders and heroin addiction get needed care.
  
