A Tennessee judge today sentenced a former nurse, who made a fatal drug error and was convicted of criminally negligent homicide earlier this year, to three years of probation.
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AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack responds to a recent Wall Street Journal article.
AHA's senior associate director of health insurance coverage discusses how commercial insurers are impacting patient care through their policies.
The phone, text and chat line begins July 16 and seeks caring people to serve as crisis counselors.
The agency this week waived certain Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program requirements to give health care providers greater flexibility to meet emergency health needs.
Yesterday, our country surpassed a grim and somber milestone: 1 million COVID-19 deaths in the U.S..
The program currently receives just 2% of total federal spending on graduate medical education.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee yesterday voted unanimously to advance the bills to the full committee.
The organizations continued to urge everyone who is eligible to get vaccinated and boosted as soon as possible.
The agency is investigating 109 potential hepatitis cases of unknown cause in U.S. children since last October.
Speakers will share women’s mental health resources and discuss national policy and stakeholder engagement.
Bechara Choucair, M.D., senior vice president and chief health officer for Kaiser Permanente and former White House vaccine coordinator, closed the conference today with lessons learned from fighting COVID-19.
Cybersecurity authorities in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States today urged companies that deliver, operate or manage information and communications technology services and their customers to implement certain best practices to secure sensitive data.
HRSA yesterday released another $450 million in American Rescue Plan Act payments to rural health care providers.
The median labor expense per discharge has increased by more than one-third since 2019, with the median wage rate for contract nurses over three times higher than for employed nurses.
FDA yesterday approved using baricitinib to treat COVID-19 in certain hospitalized adults, and warned not to use a Skippack Medical Lab test.
Michelle Hood, AHA executive vice president and chief operating officer, kicked off day 2 of the 2022 Accelerating Health Equity Conference in Cleveland today by referencing Tuesday’s keynote address.
AHA is providing new resources to help hospitals and health systems advance digital health equity among historically marginalized populations.
The AHA and other national health care organizations yesterday urged HHS to maintain the public health emergency until it’s clear that the global pandemic has receded and the capabilities authorized by the PHE are no longer necessary.
A GE Healthcare facility that makes the contrast media in Shanghai, China, had to shut down temporarily due to a COVID-19 lockdown.