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AHA salutes nurses’ extraordinary dedication to care this National Nurses Week
As the nation celebrates National Nurses Week in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses' commitment and strength is inspiring communities across the country and their leadership is essential, writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack in a special message to the American Organization for Nursing Leadership.
Court hears arguments in AHA lawsuit over public disclosure of negotiated rates
A federal district court in Washington, D.C., heard oral argument in the AHA’s legal challenge to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ final rule mandating that hospitals disclose their privately negotiated charges with commercial health insurers.
AHA-supported bill would extend Medicare rural hospital program for 5 years
Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Michael Bennett, D-Colo., and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, introduced AHA-supported legislation (S. 3615) that would extend for five years the Medicare Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program.
AHA Podcast: Digital response strategies to COVID-19
Hospitals and health systems are designing new digital response strategies in the battle against COVID-19. What lessons have been learned so far, and which digital response methods are most successful?
CDC streamlines lab test result reporting by sharing COVID-19 results reported to public health agencies with HHS system
To streamline the reporting of COVID-19 lab test results, the CDC encouraged all U.S. hospital laboratories to submit their COVID-19 testing information to their state or local public health department following their normal protocol for reportable conditions.
HHS updates FAQs related to CARES Act emergency funds
The Department of Health and Human Services released updated FAQs related to payments from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund.
Congress urged to shield health care facilities and providers from COVID-19 liability
The AHA and other national hospital organizations asked congressional leaders to include in the next COVID-19 legislative package provisions to shield from unwarranted liability the health care facilities and providers treating patients during the pandemic.
HHS extends attestation deadline for emergency funds
The Department of Health and Human Services has extended the deadline for health care providers to attest to receipt of payments from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund and accept the terms and conditions.
CDC updates isolation guidance
Given the impracticality of continuously testing people diagnosed with COVID-19 to determine whether they remain infectious, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued guidance this week on a symptom-based strategy for discontinuing isolation of persons with COVID-19.
JHU offers plan to bolster health care during COVID-19
Experts at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Center for Health Security published a national plan this week for expanding and adapting the U.S. health care system to better address the COVID-19 pandemic.