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In media interviews, AHA leaders continue to sound alarm over workforce challenges and urge Americans to get vaccinated

AHA Board Chair Rod Hochman, M.D., and AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack continued to sound the alarm over health care workforce challenges as COVID-19 surges across the country. 

CDC endorses clinical preference for Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed updated recommendations expressing a clinical preference for individuals to receive an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine over Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, as proposed by the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. 

Administration asks U.S. Supreme Court to allow CMS nationwide vaccine mandate for health care workers

The federal government asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the Missouri and Louisiana district court preliminary injunctions that have put the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services vaccine mandate on hold in 24 states.

AHA releases 2022 Health Care Talent Scan

The 2022 Health Care Talent Scan is now available on the American Hospital Association (AHA) website.
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New Federal Patient Notice and Disclosure Rules

Beginning Jan. 1, 2022, facilities and providers must notify patients of their rights with respect to their balance billing protections under the No Surprises Act. Facilities and providers also must provide oral and written notice to uninsured and self-pay patients of their right to a good faith estimate prior to scheduled services.
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Reminder: No Surprises Act Provisions Take Effect Beginning January 1, 2022

Effective Jan. 1, 2022, facilities and providers will need to adhere to several new policies required by the No Surprises Act. Specifically, facilities and providers will not be permitted to balance bill patients in certain out-of-network scenarios unless certain conditions are met, they must provide uninsured and self-pay patients with good faith estimates for most scheduled services (or upon request), and they must provide patients with disclosures of their new rights.

Special Matching Gift Challenge

Dr. Mary Ann Fuchs and her husband, Dr. Herbert Fuchs, are challenging you to invest in the future of nursing leadership today.

Project Firstline IPC Training Applications Due Dec. 29

Project Firstline is seeking health systems to partner in identifying and addressing training needs related to infection prevention and control

Kentucky declares nurse staffing state of emergency

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency Dec. 9 in response to the state’s nursing shortage.