Spartanburg (S.C.) Regional Healthcare System is partnering with the community on a series of educational and fun events to raise awareness about heart disease.
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AHA President and CEO Rich Umbdenstock urged rural hospital leaders to send Congress a strong message about protecting rural health care during the AHA-hosted 2015 Rural Health Care Leadership Conf
A federal appeals court today decided in favor of the Federal Trade Commission in a closely watched antitrust case (FTC v. St.
Almost 6.5 million people have qualified for an advance premium tax credit to purchase health insurance through HealthCare.gov during 2015 open enrollment, according to a
Rural health networks can apply through April 6 for a portion of $1.6 million in funding to support care coordination strategies to improve outcomes for patients with heart failure, chronic obstruc
A new toolkit from the AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative provides a framework and re
Fred Gattas Jr. and Margaret Wagner Dahl will serve as chair and chair-elect, respectively, for the AHA's 2015 Committee on Governance.
More than 100 hospitals have worked with the Wisconsin Hospital Association to improve care for more than 9,000 patients over the past three years, avoiding more than $87 million in health care cos
Virginia hospitals and health systems provided almost $3 billion in community benefit and other types of community support in 2013, according to a
Sharing best practices and spurring on peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the three-year AHA/Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) Hospital Engagement Network (HEN), which ended las
The AHA late Friday filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Department of Health and Human Services in a federal lawsuit seeking to exclude all drugs with an “orphan” designation from a
The Government Accountability Office Friday issued a report summarizing actions by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
The Food and Drug Administration Friday issued
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday published a final list of Essential Community Providers for plan year 2016, available on the CMS
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday issued a rule finalizing cer
The AHA seeks hospital and health system trustees to serve on its Committee on Governance, Regional Policy Boards, and other governing councils and committees beginning in 2016.
The AHA today urged the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response to distribute the recent Ebola emergency funding as Congress i
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has asked the Measure Applications Partnership to conduct an accelerated review of an ad hoc
AHA today encouraged the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to refine its draft strategic plan for health information technology to clarify and prioritize federal
Medicare will cover annual lung-cancer screening with Low Dose Computed Tomography for Medicare beneficiaries who meet certain criteria, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services