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Statement on the Renomination of Marilyn Tavenner, As Administrator of The Centers for Medicare &...
The AHA applauds the renomination of Marilyn Tavenner to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and families to become involved in their care. A new report from the AHA Committee on Research “Engaging Health Care Users: A Framework for Healthy Individuals and Communities” presents a…
The AHA's framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and families and contemplates the role of hospitals and health care systems in improving the overall health of the population and communities they are serving. Within this context, in 2012 the AHA Board…
Today's proposed rule is an important step forward in further reducing burdensome requirements to hospitals. Many of these changes will be particularly welcomed by small and rural hospitals.
Lynn C. Jones, president, Christiana Care Home Health & Community Services, Inc. and senior vice president, post-acute care services, Christiana Care Health System of Wilmington, Del., is the 2013 chairman of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Long-Term Care and…
Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregivers in 100 neonatal intensive care units in nine states—caring for 8,400 newborn patients—used prevention practice checklists and improved communication to prevent an estimated 131 CLABSIs…
The nation's hospitals annually employ 5.5 million people and create two trillion dollars in economic activity, yet some in Congress continue to threaten access to hospital services.
This webinar explored topics in both reports including the first- and second-curve economic markets, highlighted the essential elements of AIM and provided strategies to navigating life in the gap, the transition period between the two economic markets.
In honor of its broad-based efforts to improve the lives of the most vulnerable members of its community, St. Joseph's/Candler Health System in Savannah, Ga. is the recipient of the 2012 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service, one of the most esteemed community service honors in…
Paul Summergrad, Dr. Frances S. Arkin Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, is the 2013 chair of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section Council for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse…