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Applications are now open for the AHA Rural Hospital Excellence in Innovation Award, which recognizes and shares the accomplishments of rural hospitals that demonstrate responsiveness, innovation and excellence in developing, implementing and sustaining programs and services.

The Food and Drug Administration April 28 announced its plan to advance the implementation of real-time clinical trials, which invite participants to supply reports and data to the agency during the approved clinical trials rather than at completion.

The AHA submitted a statement for the record to the House Ways and Means Committee for its April 28 hearing with health system CEOs.

The Food and Drug Administration has identified a nationwide recall.

The AHA Leadership Summit will be held July 12-14 in Denver.

The AHA again is asking the Health Resources and Services Administration to take action after Eli Lilly warned hospitals that they could lose access to discounted drug prices unless they comply with new data submission requirements.

Marc Boom, M.D., is joined by Stacey Hughes, AHA executive vice president of government relations and public policy, to talk about the important role that advocacy plays in advancing health care, what’s happening in Washington, and how hospital and health system leaders can support this work.

The Utah measles outbreak has increased to 607 cases, the state’s Department of Health and Human Services reported April 24.

The administration Apri 23 reached a

The Food and Drug Administration today announced it is accelerating regulatory action on a new class of psychedelic-based therapies, following an April 18 executive order calling to speed up access to treatments for serious mental illness.

The AHA April 24 urged the Sequoia Project to delay implementation of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement Individual Access Services Exchange Purpose Standard Operating Procedures version 3.0 until key legal and regulatory issues are resolved.

A joint advisory released April 23 from U.S. and international cybersecurity agencies, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI, National Security Agency and other global partners, warns that China-nexus cyber actors have significantly shifted their tactics, now posing heightened risks for hospitals and health systems that rely on connected devices and complex networks.

At the AHA’s 2026 Annual Membership Meeting, more than 1,000 hospital and health system leaders came to Washington, D.C., united by a shared responsibility: to ensure every community has access to high‑quality, affordable care.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Food and Drug Administration April 23 announced a new pathway to expedite access to certain FDA-designated Class II and Class III devices for Medicare beneficiaries.

The AHA April 23 released a blog responding to a

The Senate April 23 adopted a budget resolution by a 50-48 vote, paving the way for a narrow reconciliation bill focused on immigration enforcement funding.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified in additional Senate hearings April 22 on the fiscal year 2027 HHS budget proposal, which requests $111.1 billion. He appeared before the Senate Finance Committee in the morning, before testifying later in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Kennedy also testified in a pair of House and Senate hearings April 21 and April 16 on the budget, which serves as a preliminary framework for Congress and the administration as they determine federal funding levels and the scope of health care policy this year.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in a

The interim final rule released April 20 by the Department of Justice regarding delayed compliance deadlines for nondiscrimination regulations does not address regulatory compliance deadlines under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Specifically, compliance deadlines for the Department of Health and Human Services final rule “Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance” still remain.

The Washington Post yesterday published a letter to the editor