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CMS issues proposed rule for mandatory organ transplant payment model
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services May 8 released a proposed rule for the Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model, a new payment model that would test whether performance-based incentives or penalties for participating transplant hospitals would increase access to kidney transplants for patients with end-stage renal disease, while preserving or enhancing quality of care, improving equitable access to kidney transplant care, and reducing Medicare expenditures.
AHA urges Congress to extend Affordable Connectivity Program to support digital health care services
In a letter submitted May 7 to a bipartisan group of senators, AHA urged Congress to extend the Affordable Connectivity Program, which provides benefits toward high-speed internet, allowing patients access to services such as telehealth, hospital at home, patient portals and electronic patient records, virtual scheduling and remote patient monitoring.
AHA urges Senate committee to support federal programs promoting workforce diversity, maternal health
Mounting pressures on the health care workforce have created a crisis with short-term staffing shortages and a long-range picture of an unfulfilled talent pipeline, and significant projected shortages of physicians and allied health and behavioral health care providers will likely be felt even more strongly in underserved communities, AHA told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in a statement submitted for a hearing May 2.
AHA podcast: Supporting Intensive Outpatient Perinatal Care
Two behavioral health experts from Illinois-based Ascension Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital share how its intensive outpatient perinatal care program accommodates new moms who need an elevated level of support.
New AHA maternal health resource focuses on heart health for pregnant women
AHA’s Better Health for Mothers and Babies initiative April 29 released a resource highlighting strategies hospitals are implementing to raise awareness and detect heart health needs early, during and after pregnancy.
Putting People First: Why Language Matters in Behavioral Health Care
Language not only describes what we think, but shapes how we think.
Integrating Mental and Physical Health to Better Support Patients and Communities
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and it is a time to raise awareness of and reduce the stigma surrounding behavioral health issues. It’s also a time to recognize how mental illness and addiction can affect all of us — patients, providers, families and our society at large.
Prevention Is the Prescription for Reducing Pediatric Sepsis
Chris DeRienzo, M.D., AHA’s Senior Vice President and Chief Physician Executive, discusses pediatric sepsis and what we can do to prevent, recognize and treat it.
HHS releases national suicide prevention strategy, plan
The Department of Health and Human Services and National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, a public-private partnership whose members include the AHA, April 23 released a national strategy and federal plan to prevent suicide over the next 10 years. The updated strategy includes a new pillar prioritizing equity for populations disproportionately impacted by suicide.
AHA case study: How one rural health system is addressing a shortage of OB/GYNs
Kittitas Valley Healthcare in rural Washington state last year implemented an innovative new model for retaining essential obstetric and other women’s health services in its community.