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Performing a psychiatric inpatient bathroom evaluation

New tool helps to manage safety and ligature risks in behavioral health settings

Designing the post-pandemic hospital

Health care facilities planners are thinking ahead to prepare for future challenges

Key design strategies for pandemic resilience

An interdisciplinary team of architects, engineers, clinicians and medical planners have created a guide for hospital planning
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Tips on Preparing Children Ages 5-11 for COVID-19 Vaccination

Connecticut Children’s is sharing information to help parents prepare their children for the COVID-19 vaccine, once authorized for ages 5-11.

CDC updates blood lead reference value for children

As recommended by its advisory committee on preventing lead exposure, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reduced the blood lead reference value for children from 5 micrograms per deciliter to 3.5 micrograms per deciliter to reflect declining blood lead levels in U.S. children aged 1-5.

AHA responds to NY Times article spotlighting study on Provider Relief Fund

AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack Sunday submitted the following letter to the editor of the New York Times responding to an article published online on a recent study in JAMA Health Forum on the Provider Relief Fund. 

HHS: Federal health insurance options helped offset employer coverage losses

The number of uninsured U.S. residents did not change substantially during the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report released by the Department of Health and Human Services. 

FDA announces serious device recall

The Food and Drug Administration announced a Class 1 recall of battery packs for an intra-aortic balloon pump used with patients undergoing surgery and to treat adults with acute coronary syndrome or heart failure complications.

Claims code released for J&J COVID-19 vaccine booster

The American Medical Association published a Current Procedural Terminology code for providers administering a booster dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.

FDA authorizes first pediatric COVID-19 vaccine; CDC to consider next week

The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for pediatric use, moving the issue of administration to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for consideration.