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Boston hospital to receive 2024 Foster G. McGaw Prize
Boston Medical Center, a private, not-for-profit, equity-led academic medical center is the winner of AHA’s 2024 Foster G. McGaw Prize for its leadership and initiatives to improve care quality, care access and health equity in its surrounding community.
Fact Sheet: Hospital Outpatient Department Billing Requirements
Congress is considering legislation that would change current billing practices for Medicare and the commercial insurance market to require each off-campus hospital outpatient department (HOPD) to be assigned a unique NPI as a condition of payment.
Blog: How AdventHealth created a multicultural mental health movement
AdventHealth’s Be a Mindleader initiative aims to help children and parents become more comfortable discussing mental health and connect families to counseling services.
NQF-endorsed measures decrease inappropriate infection diagnoses
Hospitals seeking to improve diagnostic safety, antibiotic use and patient care should use two National Quality Forum-endorsed measures to reduce inappropriate diagnosis of urinary tract infections and community-acquired pneumonia, a study found.
AHA highlights hospital exemplars advancing health equity
The American Hospital Association highlighted the work of three organizations who received the 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award.
N.J. clinicians required to take bias training to reduce maternal disparities
Rules published this week in New Jersey will require nurses and doctors who provide prenatal and post-natal care to take bias training in an attempt to lower maternal health disparities among women of color.
Podcast discusses how rural hospital overcame obstetrics challenges
An American Hospital Association podcast explores how Kittitas Valley Healthcare preserved essential obstetric services after its three full-time OB/GYNs left.
Rural obstetrics units with few births struggle to stay open
About one-third of Iowa hospitals have closed their labor and delivery units since 2000, part of a nationwide trend resulting from declining births in rural areas.
Visa restrictions pose threat to foreign-educated nurses
The U.S. government’s extension of a pause on processing visa applications for international nurses in June could worsen existing nursing workforce shortages, given the increasing role of foreign-educated nurses in hospitals...
OhioHealth uses smart rooms to reduce nurse workload
OhioHealth in Columbus launched Pickerington Methodist Hospital in 2023, which employs smart room technology to reduce nurse workload.