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Winona Health – Healthy Kids/GR8 Kids

Winona Health’s Healthy Kids program kicked off in fall 2007 as Healthy Kids Club, with the goal to engage, educate and promote a healthy lifestyle to children ages 5 to 12. Collaborating with more than 20 local organizations and public, private and charter schools, we offer three annual major events for children and families, creating opportunities to reinforce healthy living choices so they become a natural part of children’s daily lives.

Bronson Healthcare – Bronson Healthy Living Campus

In 2013, Bronson Healthcare announced a partnership with Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) and Kalamazoo Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to remediate a blighted, former superfund site and create a 14-acre campus. Completed in 2016, the Bronson Healthy Living Campus is a catalyst for urban revitalization, community health, and workforce development through sustainable food education, training, production, distribution and preparation.

Connecticut Children’s Medical Center – Help Me Grow® National Center

The Help Me Grow® National Center (National Center) is a flagship program of Connecticut Children’s Office for Community Child Health (the Office).

Brother Francis Shelter Medical Respite Program

Three of Alaska’s largest hospitals collaborated to open Anchorage’s first medical respite unit and clinic for the homeless.

Bill Extending Emergency Professional Liability Across States Advances

The House Energy & Commerce Committee yesterday approved the Good Samaritan Health Professional Act (H.R. 1876), AHA-supported legislation that would extend liability standards under the Volunteer Protection Act of 1997 to licensed health professionals who volunteer in another state during a disaster.

Hospitals Care for Victims of Florida School Shooting

Broward Health hospitals received 17 patients from a mass shooting yesterday at a high school in Parkland, FL, including two who have died and five who are in life-threatening condition.

AHA, Hospitals to Court: Reinstate HHS Deadline to Clear Appeals Backlog

The AHA and three member hospitals today urged the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to require the Health and Human Services Secretary to clear the Medicare appeals backlog at the administrative law judge level within five years.

CMS Issues Final List of Essential Community Providers for Plan Year 2019

Health insurers use the annual list to identify providers meeting ECP requirements for Qualified Health Plans participating in health insurance exchanges.

CMS: U.S. Health Spending Projected to Grow 5.5% Annually Over Decade

National health expenditures are projected to grow an average 5.5% annually during 2017-2026, outpacing average projected growth in gross domestic product by 1 percentage point, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of the Actuary reported yesterday.

CMS Discusses New Low-Volume Appeals Settlement Option

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week held a Medicare Learning Network call on its new settlement option for health care providers with a low volume of appeals pending at the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals and Medicare Appeals Council.