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The COVID-19 pandemic has put extreme stress on the health care workforce in the United States, HHS reports.

The report estimates the impact of COVID-19 vaccination during a five-month period shortly after the first vaccine was authorized and recommended for health care workers and elderly people in long-term care facilities.

AHA today released a customizable music video and other social media resources to help hospitals and communities celebrate May 8-14.

Chanda Chacón, president and CEO at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., talks with AHA about the hospital’s recently established pediatric mental health urgent care center.

Six national organizations, including the AHA, today urged congressional leaders to permanently expand access to the Affordable Care Act’s advance premium tax credits.

The two unauthorized tests look like authorized iHealth and Flowflex tests.

Topics of interest include priorities, benefits and limits of a patient experience survey in this setting.

The AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering recently updated its free tool to help health care facilities assess and prevent infection risk during construction, renovation and maintenance.

CMS Friday finalized policy and technical changes to the Medicare Advantage and prescription drug benefit for contract year 2023.

HHS will continue to include certain telehealth services in its risk adjustment program for qualified health plans in plan year 2022.

The ad spotlights the pandemic’s toll on the nation’s health care workforce, noting that nearly 45% of nurses encountered physical violence and over two-thirds were victims of verbal abuse in early 2020. 

The Point of Care Celltrion DiaTrust COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test may have been distributed to unauthorized laboratories, which could increase the risk of false results.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Friday issued recommendations for clinicians testing or treating patients for H5N1 bird flu.

The Government Accountability Office today named four new members to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission.

One priority for hospitals and health systems is advancing diversity, equity and inclusion. The AHA’s next gathering, the Accelerating Health Equity Conference, May 10–12 in Cleveland, will focus on that topic.

CISA and the FBI yesterday encouraged U.S. organizations to take certain actions to monitor and protect their networks.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last night confirmed a case of H5N1 bird flu in someone exposed to infected poultry in Colorado.

Medtronic this week alerted health care providers to a defect in its Heartware Ventricular Assist Device System that may cause the internal pump to malfunction.

The numbers reflect an increase from 27.1 million individuals in 2020.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released a report on the nine children recently hospitalized in Alabama with acute hepatitis of unknown origin who also had adenovirus.