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In Winona, Minn., local leaders responded to their Community Health Needs Assessment findings by organizing a framework for community-based care coordination.
FDA today authorized a single booster dose for children 5-11 who completed the Pfizer vaccine primary series at least five months before.
The RAND Corporation’s latest hospital pricing report again “overreaches and jumps to unfounded conclusions based on incomplete data,” said AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack.
The AHA and other hospital groups urged the courts to require drug companies to fulfill their legal obligations.
The hospital field continues to need COVID-19 relief and support, writes AHA’s senior vice president for federal relations, advocacy and political affairs.
Hospital and health system leaders focused on health equity and/or diversity and inclusion initiatives in their organizations are encouraged to complete the survey.
In a letter today, AHA asked GE Healthcare to provide additional i
The AHA and other hospital and health care organizations Friday urged the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to rehear Wit v.
by Wright L. Lassiter III, Chair, American Hospital Association
Talking about death or dying is an uncomfortable topic for many of us. Hospitals and health systems provide life-saving treatments and care for people as they recover from illness or injury. Just as important, health care organizations are transforming end-of-life care to better care for people with serious and life-limiting illness and their loved ones.
The original deadline to request an exception for reporting period 2 was May 13.
A Tennessee judge today sentenced a former nurse, who made a fatal drug error and was convicted of criminally negligent homicide earlier this year, to three years of probation.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack responds to a recent Wall Street Journal article.
AHA's senior associate director of health insurance coverage discusses how commercial insurers are impacting patient care through their policies.  
The phone, text and chat line begins July 16 and seeks caring people to serve as crisis counselors.
The agency this week waived certain Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program requirements to give health care providers greater flexibility to meet emergency health needs.  
by Rick Pollack
Yesterday, our country surpassed a grim and somber milestone: 1 million COVID-19 deaths in the U.S..
The program currently receives just 2% of total federal spending on graduate medical education. 
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee yesterday voted unanimously to advance the bills to the full committee.
The organizations continued to urge everyone who is eligible to get vaccinated and boosted as soon as possible.