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Three programs that expand the reach of palliative and end-of-life care will receive 2019 Circle of Life Awards July 26 at the AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego.
The AHA recently participated in a meeting of an American Academy of Family Physicians task force that will recommend evidence-based strategies to improve maternal health and reduce disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality.
Air ambulances charged an average four to 10 times what Medicare paid for their services in 2016, according to a study reported this week in Health Affairs.
Women in rural areas face unique maternal health care challenges, including hospital closures or lack of obstetric services. In this AHA Stat Blog, Jay Bhatt, D.O., senior vice president and chief medical officer of the AHA, and Melissa Mannon, AHA associate director of policy development, discuss…
AHA’s Leadership Summit will deliver a speaker and topic to engage everyone, from trustee to clinician to CEO.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed guidance for hospital co-location with other hospitals or health care facilities “represents an important update to existing CMS policy,” AHA said today.
The Department of Labor is tapping into the AHA and its professional membership groups to help expand health care apprenticeship programs across the country.
In a letter today to leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, the AHA and five other national hospital groups said they agree with the need to protect American families from the problem of “surprise medical bills,” but have “serious concerns” with a provision of the…
Tackling the complex issue of clinician burnout begins by being willing to have the conversation, AHA leaders shared this past weekend at the Aspen Ideas: Health festival.
The AHA today submitted comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ hospital inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year 2020.