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Thursday is National Alcohol Screening Day, sponsored annually by Screening for Mental Health Inc. to bring attention to the needs of those with alcohol use disorders and their families.
The AHA today expressed concern that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s “roadmap” to achieve nationwide interoperability “is not sufficiently grounded in an
About half of the nation’s more than 5,000 hospital laboratories were reporting notifiable conditions to public health agencies using electronic communications protocols as of last April, acc
International travelers are bringing a multidrug-resistant intestinal illness to the United States, according to a new
Nebraska could receive more than $2.1 billion in federal Medicaid funding over five years and avoid $1 billion in state spending over 10 years if state lawmakers were to approve
April is National Donate Life Month, commemorating those who have received or continue to wait for lifesaving transplants as well as the donors who save and heal lives. More than 123,000 U.S.
Employment at the nation's hospitals increased by 0.16% in March to a seasonally adjusted 4,846,200 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should withdraw its two-midnight policy and target Recovery Audit Contractor reviews to hospitals with the most short inpatient stays, the Medicare
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued an
President Obama yesterday issued an executi
AHA’s Center for Healthcare Governance has released a free two-part webinar&nbs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today
The AHA and Catholic Health Association of the United States today urged the Internal Revenue Service to formally acknowledge that support for improved housing to enhance the health of a hospital&r
The Federal Trade Commission yesterday finalized 
The Health Information Trust Alliance and Booz Allen Hamilton will host a free educational event on cybersecurity preparedness April 30 in Washington, D.C.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration last week issued revised federal guidelines
The National Institutes of Health this week named a working group that will seek public input on the design of a
The AHA encourages all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey, available today through April 17.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., last week vowed quick action on bipartisan legislation to replace the Medicare physician sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula when the Senate reconve
The Class of 2017 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year.