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Providing world-class quality health care may seem an audacious goal for a small or rural hospital. At Maury Regional Medical Center, in Columbia, Tenn., leadership, physicians and front-line staff have worked many years to do just that—provide the best possible service and outcomes for patients.…
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is pleased to support your legislation, the Two-Midnight Rule Coordination and Improvement Act of 2014 (S. 2082), to delay enforcement of the Medicare inpatient admission and review criteria (the two-midnight policy).
The National Patient Safety Foundation leads Patient Safety Awareness Week in early March to promote education and awareness about safety issues in health care. Every day, the AHA and NPSF work to support the managers and front-line professionals at hospitals and care systems who work 24/7 to…
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is pleased to support the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act (S.2037). This legislation would remove the 96-hour physician certification requirement as a condition of payment for critical access hospitals (CAHs).
This AHA/HRET guide explains the value of integrating physical and behavioral health services and the importance of measuring integration efforts.
This viewpoint article examines the barriers to improving health outcomes, eliminating disparities in health care and functioning within a sustainable budget. These barriers include stakeholder interests that may not be aligned with investments in population health, barriers to information transfer…
The statistics are staggering: The number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes has risen from 1.5 million in 1958 to 18.8 million in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is estimated that more than 25 million Americans have diabetes, and about 79 million adults have…
Rick Pollack urges President Obama to protect the health care promised to program beneficiaries in your fiscal year (FY) 2015 Federal Budget by not including further reductions in payments for hospital services provided to seniors and the disabled under Medicare.