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In observance of Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week May 4-10, the Health Resources and Services Administration highlighted its Pediatric Mental Health Care Access program that is available to provide free teleconsultation services for health professionals to help them better care for children and youth with behavioral health concerns.

President Trump yesterday announced that Casey Means, M.D., has been nominated to be the next U.S. surgeon general.

Reps. Jennifer McClellan, D-Va., and Don Bacon, R-Neb., and Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., today reintroduced AHA-supported legislation addressing mental health and substance use disorder facility shortages.

An estimated 7.2 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, according to the latest annual report by the Alzheimer's Association.

Nurse leader and suicide survivor Bob Dent, DNP, R.N., shares his personal struggle with mental health that has continued even while managing a successful career.

In an AHA podcast, Women & Infants Hospital's Shannon Sullivan, president and chief operating officer, and Caron Zlotnick, Ph.D., director of behavioral medicine research, discuss the stigma surrounding maternal mental health, the challenges new mothers face and the innovative programs that are having success in maternal well-being and postpartum depression prevention.

Nearly 1 in 10 infants (9.8%) were admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit in 2023, an increase of 13% from 2016, according to a

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is suspending (https://www.cms.gov/search/cms?keys=MIPS+activities+suspended) eight improvement activities for the 2025 performance year for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System under the Physician Fee Schedule.

The Trump administration May 5 issued two executive orders on pharmaceutical manufacturing and life-sciences research.

AHA May 6 submitted comments to the Department of Commerce on its Section 232 national security investigation of pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical ingredients imports.

Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., spoke to AHA Annual Meeting attendees in a fireside chat moderated by Aishah Hasnie, congressional correspondent for Fox News.

In a wide-ranging conversation May 6 at the 2025 AHA Annual Membership Meeting, Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Wash., spoke about the upcoming budget reconciliation process, the youth mental health crisis, the Department of Health and Human Services’ potential action on vaccines, and the importance of protecting Medicaid.

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., May 6 discussed eliminating waste, fraud and abuse from Medicaid as Congress works to find $880 billion in savings for its reconciliation bill.

Freshman Sens. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., May 6 joined former CNN correspondent Frank Sesno at the 2025 AHA Annual Membership Meeting to discuss their first terms in the U.S. Senate, what they hope to see in American health care, and what hospitals, health systems and hospital associations can do to help protect Medicaid.

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, M.D., spoke about the need to shorten the length of the drug approval process and the use of artificial intelligence, among other topics, during the AHA Annual Membership Meeting.

Jennifer Mendrzycki, president and CEO of TMC Health, Robert Vissers, M.D., president and CEO of Boulder Community Health, and Kristin Horvath, AHA senior associate director of federal relations, May 5 joined host Aimee Kuhlman, AHA vice president of advocacy and grassroots, to discuss the importance of advocating on behalf of hospitals and health systems and successful approaches to advocacy and grassroots at the 2025 AHA Annual Membership Meeting.

Retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal May 6 spoke at the 2025 AHA Annual Membership Meeting about navigating difficult situations as a leader, sharing examples from his military experience and how it could translate to leading hospitals and health systems.

The Save Healthcare Workers Act (H.R.3178/S.1600) — bipartisan legislation that would make it a crime to assault hospital workers, similar to the current federal law protecting airline and airport workers — was introduced May 5 in the House and Senate.

Though seasonal flu activity is low or minimal across the country, 216 pediatric deaths associated with seasonal influenza virus infection have been tallied so far for the 2024-2025 season, accordi

The AHA May 5 presented two federal hospital leaders at the 2025 AHA Annual Membership Meeting with awards recognizing outstanding service to the health care field.