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The Delaware Healthcare Association, a membership organization for hospitals and health systems in the state, today named Megan McNamara Williams to serve as interim CEO until its Board of Directors identifies a permanent replacement for Wayne Smith, who stepped down as president and CEO in December.

The Rural Health Redesign Center has released a recording of its Jan. 18 webinar on the requirements and application process for eligible rural and critical access hospitals interested in converting to a Rural Emergency Hospital.

AHA’s United Against the Flu campaign today released a new social media toolkit to help hospitals and health systems encourage their communities to get vaccinated, including getting the updated COVID-19 booster.

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to simplify current COVID-19 vaccine use so that all primary series and booster doses administered in the U.S. would be bivalent.

In recognition of Maternal Health Awareness Day, Aisha Syeda, senior program manager for AHA’s work on maternal health, highlights strategies health care organizations are spearheading to tackle the two leading causes of maternal deaths.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency last week released a report recommending changes to streamline its Public Assistance Program based on feedback from stakeholders interviewed by an independent advisory committee.

To help hospitals and health systems meet demand during the current surge in respiratory illnesses for fever-reducing products to treat pediatric patients and adults unable to swallow solid oral dosage forms, the Food and Drug Administration Friday released guidance for outsourcing facilities compounding certain ibuprofen oral suspension products.

For the past 125 years, the AHA has been a tireless advocate for the health care field, patients, and communities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Wastewater Surveillance System has helped the nation monitor new COVID-19 variants and their spread during the public health emergency and will remain a critical data source for responding to the virus, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

The Joint Commission recently appointed Susan Fox, president and CEO of White Plains Hospital in New York, to its Board of Commissioners effective Jan. 1.

The share of U.S. overdose deaths involving buprenorphine did not increase after federal agencies allowed clinicians to prescribe the opioid use disorder treatment remotely, among other flexibilities during the COVID-19 public health emergency, according to a federal study reported in JAMA Network Open. 

The latest quarterly bulletin from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthcare Cybersecurity Coordination Center reviews cyber threats to the health care sector in fourth-quarter 2022.

“Hospitals and health systems come in all shapes and sizes, but at the end of the day, you’re providing care to people.

Only 16% of pregnant people who reported drinking alcohol in 2017 or 2019 were advised by a health care provider to stop or reduce their alcohol use, although 80% were asked about alcohol use during their most recent health care visit, suggesting missed opportunities to reduce alcohol use during pregnancy, according to a survey released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In an online survey last November of 1,200 U.S. adults previously vaccinated against COVID-19, 62% had not yet received a bivalent booster dose, most often because they did not know they were eligible or the booster was available, or believed they were immune against infection.

AHA today released its latest triennial report on governance structures and practices at U.S. hospitals and health systems, based on data from 933 hospital and health system CEOs surveyed between November 2021 and March 2022.

Emergency departments in the highest quartile of pediatric readiness based on National Pediatric Readiness Project standards have lower death rates for children with serious injury or illness than EDs in the lowest quartile, according to a federal study reported in JAMA Network Open.

The CDC released a dashboard tracking hospitalization rates for laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, flu and Respiratory Syncytial Virus by age group, sex, race/ethnicity, state and season based on data from select counties in 13 states, which the agency will update weekly.

Over 700,000 physicians, hospitals and other health care providers will collaborate to coordinate care for 13.2 million Medicare patients through three accountable care models in 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today.

To help guide physician and patient conversations as part of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Choosing Wisely campaign, the Society of General Internal Medicine today released an updated list of commonly ordered tests and procedures that are not always necessary in general internal medicine based on the latest evidence. The five recommendations address topics ranging from home glucose testing to annual general health checks, preoperative testing, cancer screening and peripherally inserted central catheters.