David Perlstein, M.D., president and CEO for SBH Health System in Bronx, N.Y., will lead the American Hospital Associations (AHA) Committee for Clinical Leadership (CCL) as chair of its 27-member committee for 2017.
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Elaine Couture, R.N., BSN, MBA, executive vice president/chief executive Providence Health & Services eastern Washington/Montana, will lead the American Hospital Associations (AHA) Section for Metropolitan Hospitals as chair of its 26-member council for 2017.
The AHA strongly supports the nomination of Dr. David Shulkin as Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Rachelle Schultz, president and CEO of Winona Health in Winona, Minn., will lead the American Hospital Associations (AHA) Section for Small or Rural Hospitals in 2017.
Joe McDonald, FACHE, president and CEO of Catholic Health System, one of the largest providers of healthcare in Western New York, is the 2017 Council chairman of the American Hospital Associations (AHA) constituency section for Health Care Systems.
Margie Beadles, volunteer/auxilian at CoxHealth in Springfield, MO, is the 2017 chair of the American Hospital Associations (AHA) Committee on Volunteers.
Patricia M. DePompei, R.N., M.S.N., president of University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital and MacDonald Women's Hospital in Cleveland, is the 2017 chair of the American Hospital Associations (AHA) Section for Maternal and Child Health Council.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that Dr. Daniel Mendelson will be chair of the AHAs Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation Council.
CMS today finalized new and expanded mandatory bundled payment models in an effort to coordinate patient care across the health care continuum, something Americas hospitals are already doing to better serve patients and improve care quality.
We commend the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for creating the Track 1+ accountable care organization (ACO) model.
Rodney Nelson, president and CEO of Mackinac Straits Health System, Inc. in St. Ignace, Mich., is the 2017 recipient of the American Hospital Associations (AHA) Rural Hospital Leadership Award.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today unveiled a report outlining a menu of options for communities, hospitals and policymakers to ensure that vulnerable rural and urban communities have access to essential health care services.
We commend the Congress for its work on the revised 21st Century Cures bill. We urge the House to approve this legislation tomorrow, as it helps improve hospitals’ ability to treat some of the most vulnerable patients.
As health care continues to evolve and as care becomes more patient centered, Dr. Price's experience both as a surgeon, along with practicing at Emory University and Grady Memorial Hospital, makes him uniquely qualified to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The American Hospital Association (AHA) congratulates Seema Verma on her nomination to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Millions of Americans have exercised one of our most fundamental rights the right to vote and elect our leaders and the result of Tuesdays historic election will shape national policies for years to come.
CMSs final rule appropriately recognizes that providing no payment to new off-campus hospital clinics for the services they provide to patients was an untenable policy.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) took an important step to strengthen its oversight of certified health IT products.