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New AHA resource helps hospitals combat workplace violence in health care settings
The AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative, along with the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety, today released Creating Safer Workplaces: A guide to mitigating violence in health care settings.
Using AI & Automation to Drive Action: From Command Centers to the Front Line
In this webinar, discover how Saint Luke’s Health System has taken a new, cutting-edge approach using AI to automatically predict issues and orchestrate resolution — from the command center to the front line. By augmenting their EHR with new predictive capabilities, Saint Luke’s has streamlined care progression processes, improved load-balancing of capacity, and optimized post-acute placement across the system.
Key Messages on Consolidation
The financial health of the hospital field has been shaken during the pandemic. Health systems have demonstrated benefits. Mergers expand the capacity of smaller and rural hospitals. A focus on hospital consolidation ignores larger market trends. The cost of providing care continues to increase. Critics of mergers too often rely on incomplete evidence. Commercial insurers do not always pass on savings from lower hospital prices.
Combating Workplace Violence in Health Care by Creating Safer Workplaces
The AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative and the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety partnered to create resources for health and security leaders on how to build safer workplaces. I
CDC names Center for Preparedness and Response director
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has named Henry Walke, M.D., to direct its Center for Preparedness and Response effective Nov. 7.
CDC: No increased mortality risk among COVID-19 vaccine recipients
In a study comparing 6.4 million COVID-19 vaccine recipients with 4.6 million demographically similar unvaccinated persons, recipients of the Pfizer, Moderna or Janssen vaccines had lower non-COVID-19 mortality risk than did the unvaccinated comparison groups, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
Moody’s: Labor shortages continue to erode hospitals’ financial performance
A shortage of nurses and other workers are driving up costs for hospitals and will continue to erode their financial performance into 2022, according to a new report by Moody’s Investors Service on the impact of labor shortages and cost pressures on health care subsectors.
AHA-supported bill would remove Medicare’s lifetime limit on inpatient psychiatric days
Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Tina Smith, D-Minn., and Reps. Paul Tonko, D-N.Y., and Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., have introduced the Medicare Mental Health Inpatient Equity Act (S. 3061/H.R. 5674), AHA-supported legislation that would eliminate the Medicare program’s 190-day lifetime limit on inpatient psychiatric days in freestanding psychiatric facilities.
House holds hearing on AHA-supported bill to support front-line health care workers
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on a number of bills to bolster the health care workforce, including the AHA-supported Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (H.R. 1667).