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AHA Comments on Proposed Main Street Lending Program For Nonprofits

Dear Secretary Mnuchin and Chairman Powell:

CAHME releases health care graduate program comparison tool

Students, employers and the general public can compare and evaluate graduate health care management programs with the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education’s new online search tool.

CMS releases inaugural-year evaluation of BPCI Advanced

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the first annual report evaluating the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model.

Medicare to cover COVID-19 tests for nursing home patients

Beginning July 6, both traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans will cover diagnostic COVID-19

FDA issues guidance on removed COVID-19 antibody tests; reporting potential medical device shortages

Clinical laboratories and health care providers should stop using any antibody tests on the Food and Drug Administration’s “removed” test list, evaluate prior results from the test and whether to retest the patient using an FDA-authorized test, the agency said.

CDC: Emergency department visits for life-threatening conditions declined in pandemic’s early months

A new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows emergency department visits dropped by 23% for heart attacks, 20% for strokes and 10% for hyperglycemic crises in first 10 weeks after the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration. 

Study: Convalescent plasma safe for patients with severe COVID-19

A study of the first 20,000 adults hospitalized with severe or life-threatening COVID-19 to receive convalescent plasma found the investigational therapy safe in this diverse group of patients, according to findings from the Food and Drug Administration’s Expanded Access Program for COVID-19 reported in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

House Democrats introduce infrastructure bill with funding for hospitals

House Democratic leaders released legislative text for the Moving Forward Act (H.R. 2), a more than $1.5 trillion plan to rebuild American infrastructure, including roads, bridges, transit, housing and health care. 

AHA comments on proposed Main Street Lending Program for nonprofits

The Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve proposal to expand the Main Street Lending Program to nonprofit organizations, as advocated by AHA, has the potential to satisfy loan assistance needs for health care organizations ineligible for Paycheck Protection Program loans or for which PPP loan maximums are insufficient, the association said.

U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps

Issue Brief
United States Cadet Nurse Corps was authorized by the U.S. Congress and signed into law in July 1943. It was a non-discriminatory program. Its purpose was to help alleviate the nursing shortage which existed during World War II. This legislation would provide honorable discharges, medal privileges and veteran burial benefits to nurses who served in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.