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This article found that county characteristics are independently associated with higher hospital readmission rates, the strongest being measures of access to care. HSR reports that after accounting for patient-risk factors and community socioeconomic factors, as well as accounting for hospital…
The health care field leaves a large environmental footprint, but hospitals and health care systems like Memorial Hermann Health System in southeast Texas are working to change that. In 2006, when the health care system began tracking energy use at its facilities, it discovered its newest buildings…
The AHA, ASHHRA and AONE believe that, in its current rulemaking, the Board has engaged in a process that is unwarranted, unprecedented and contrary to the administration‘s rulemaking goals by resubmitting, in essentially identical form, the Board‘s 2011 NPRM (See 76 Fed. Reg. 36,812).
The American Hospital Association (AHA) will present its 2014 Award of Honor to the Ohio Hospital Association (OHA) for its OHA Energy and Sustainability Program.