Medical Education/Teaching Hospitals
AHA responds to Representative Joseph Pitts' Graduate Medical Education open letter.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is pleased to support H.R. 5227, the “Making the Education of Nurses Dependable for Schools Act (MEND).” This legislation is critical to ensuring the viability of our nation’s hospital-based nursing education programs and a robust supply of nurses to provide…
Teaching Hospitals: Vital for Tomorrow's Health Care
On November 2, the CMS released the outpatient prospective payment system \(OPPS\) and ambulatory surgical center \(ASC\) final rule for calendar year\(CY\) 2011. This rule implements provisions enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 \(ACA\), including several policies…