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Debra Flores, R.N., president of Sentara CarePlex Hospital in Hampton, VA, will lead the AHA's Constituency Section for Metropolitan Hospitals as 2016 chair of its governing council.

An AHA webinar tomorrow will explore how hospitals and health systems can improve patients’ care experience and realize significant savings by adopting key administrative simplification stand

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today released for comment

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued new guidance related to certain special enrollment periods available to consumers purchasing coverage on the federal Health Insuran

Data submission for calendar year 2015 Physician Quality Reporting System measures began Jan. 1.

More than 8.8 million people selected a 2016 health plan between Nov. 1 and Jan.

James Shmerling, president and CEO of Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, will lead the AHA's Constituency Section for Maternal and Child Health as 2016 chair of its governing

The AHA, Department of Health and Human Services and more than 25 other hospital and health care provider associations are participating in a Provider and Hospital Week of Action ahead of the Jan.

Hospitals participating in the inpatient and outpatient quality reporting programs can preview their overall hospital quality star rating through Feb.

The AHA’s 28-member Committee on Governance (COG) helps mobilize trustee involvement in grassroots advocacy and provides input into AHA policies.

The Food and Drug Administration Friday issued draft guidance for medical device manufactu

Only one in five U.S.

The departments of Health and Human Services and Education Friday issued a letter and toolkit su

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Bundled Payment for Care Improvement and Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement initiatives will be important tests of how well Medicare bu

Vindell Washington, M.D., will join the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology as principal deputy national coordinator

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, today received the 2015 Foster G.

Kevin Most, D.O., vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer for Northwestern Medicine at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, IL, will

Olympus has recalled its TJF-Q180V duodenoscope so it can make Food and Drug Administration-approved modifications to the roughly 4,400 devices in use in U.S.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday finalized its recommendations to provide no updates in fiscal year 2017 for Medicare payments to home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities,