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Improving care after discharge translates to decreased readmissions. Marshall Medical Center, a 113-bed hospital in Placerville, Calif., used the AHA/HRET Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) change package driver to improve care transitions for discharged patients, reducing its readmission rate by…
This webinar examined how hospitals, health care providers and clinicians are using population health to advance equitable care and its overall benefits to the work they do.
AHA urges the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to issue an Interim Final Rule (IFR) with comment period requiring that qualified health plans (QHPs) offered through the Health Insurance Marketplaces accept third-party premium and cost-sharing payments from hospitals, hospital-…
National Hospital Week celebrates the men and women working in U.S. hospitals and care systems who are always ready to serve, care and heal. Like many U.S. hospitals and care systems, the staff at Main Line Health provides health care to a diverse patient population. The health system, which serves…
Today's hospital and care system leaders are addressing challenges while maximizing opportunities for transformation and innovation in the U.S. health care system. The AHA's nine-month Health Care Transformation Fellowship provides senior health care leaders with knowledge and actionable tools…
We support FDA’s efforts to improve the safety and efficacy of POC BGMS used for hospitalized patients. However, we are concerned that, as written, the draft guidance would have serious unintended consequences for patients and hospitals, including placing patients at unnecessary risk.