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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia should overturn a National Labor Relations Board decision permitting an incumbent union at a hospital to organize only a small portion of the bargaining unit’s unrepresented non-professional employees, the AHA and Federation of American Hospitals said in a friend-of-the-court brief filed yesterday.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today updated the Open Payments website with 2014 data on transfers o

Dialysis patients in New Jersey and New York City were about 20% less likely to visit an emergency department or be hospitalized in the week after Hurricane Sandy if they received dialysis before t

Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, will receive the second annual AHA Equity of Care Award July 24 at the Health Forum/AHA Leaders

Hospital representatives are invited to attend a

The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Institutes of Health will host a conference Aug.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will allow hospitals participating in the Medicare Electronic Health Record program for the first time in fiscal year 2015 to attest to meaningful u

Hospitals may use the names of practice groups or departments, instead of individual providers (e.g., physicians), to establish a list of providers delivering care in the hospital, according to a <

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday issued a proposed rule that

Wait times for health care appointments vary widely in the United States, ranging from same day service to several months, according to a

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The AHA-affiliated Health Research & Educational Trust video on preventing dialysis-related infections through patient engagement

Reps. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) and Dave Loebsack (D-IA) last night introduced AHA-supported legislation (H.R.

Accountable care organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program in 2014 or later may apply in July to participate in the ACO Investment Model, which offers prepaid shared saving

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services anticipates that the July update to the Hospital Compare website will include performance data reported voluntarily by critical access hospitals, th

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration yesterday advised its staff to review potential hazards

The AHA and its Health Research & Educational Trust affiliate are surveying hospitals through July to cata

A Health Research & Educational Trust video on preventing dialysis-related infections through patient engagement h

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The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs today held a hearing on the Department