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AHA recognizes May as Mental Health Awareness Month with refreshed website

In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, the AHA has refreshed its website highlighting the important roles hospitals and health systems play in behavioral health care, as well as resources from the AHA and other organizations addressing the importance of behavioral health care for patients and communities.

Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital Opens New Autism Clinic

Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital has opened a new Applied Behavior Analysis Clinic in Riverton, Utah, that aims to address the growing need for autism services in the community.

Project aims to counter vaccine misinformation

Public health experts and scientists are forming the Vaccine Integrity Project to counter vaccine misinformation.

CDC infection prevention advisory panel expected to end

Several members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee received termination notices, leading public health experts to believe the administration will terminate the committee.

CMO, CNO co-chairing quality committee can improve safety

MaineHealth in Portland pairs up the chief medical officer and CNO at each of its hospitals to co-chair the quality and safety committee in an effort to promote interprofessional collaboration.

Split nurse faculty roles could address nursing shortage

Ochsner Health is among the health systems creating split faculty roles, allowing nurses to work at hospitals and serve as adjunct faculty.

Hospital lowers nurse turnover

AONL member and El Camino CNO Cheryl Reinking, DNP, RN, says her system has relied on several strategies to return turnover rates to 5% after they climbed to 12.7% during the pandemic.
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State Infographics – What's at Stake: Medicaid covers the people you know.

Fact: Medicaid chronically underpays for services. Without supplemental payments, Medicaid fee-for-services payments nationally paid 58 cents for every dollar that hospitals spent caring for Medicaid patients, and Medicaid managed care organizations paid 65 cents.

AHA urges Congress to preserve access to care

In a letter to congressional leadership, the American Hospital Association urges Congress to refrain from making disruptive policy changes to Medicaid and other health care coverage that could affect access to health care for tens of millions of Americans.