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AHA, other national groups urge Congress to increase funding for CHGME program

The AHA and other national health care organizations May 16 sent a letter to Senate and House appropriations leaders requesting $758 million in funding for the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program for fiscal year 2025, an increase over prior funding allocations

AHA blog: Tapping Community Partners to Codesign Black Maternal Care

Health care organizations can create more inclusive, responsive and effective maternal health initiatives that address the unique challenges Black women encounter during pregnancy and childbirth by codesigning care with community partners.

HHS announces national strategy to improve maternal mental health care

The Department of Health and Human Services May 14 announced a national strategy to address maternal mental health and substance use issues.

AHA podcast: How mothers in health care succeed at both home and work

Given the pressures of parenting, learn how health care organizations are supporting new moms to enable them to thrive at work, and most importantly, at home, in the final episode of AHA’s “Beyond Birth” podcast series.

CMS issues proposed rule for mandatory organ transplant payment model

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services May 8 released a proposed rule for the Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model, a new payment model that would test whether performance-based incentives or penalties for participating transplant hospitals would increase access to kidney transplants for patients with end-stage renal disease, while preserving or enhancing quality of care, improving equitable access to kidney transplant care, and reducing Medicare expenditures.

AHA urges Congress to extend Affordable Connectivity Program to support digital health care services 

In a letter submitted May 7 to a bipartisan group of senators, AHA urged Congress to extend the Affordable Connectivity Program, which provides benefits toward high-speed internet, allowing patients access to services such as telehealth, hospital at home, patient portals and electronic patient records, virtual scheduling and remote patient monitoring. 

AHA urges Senate committee to support federal programs promoting workforce diversity, maternal health 

Mounting pressures on the health care workforce have created a crisis with short-term staffing shortages and a long-range picture of an unfulfilled talent pipeline, and significant projected shortages of physicians and allied health and behavioral health care providers will likely be felt even more strongly in underserved communities, AHA told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in a statement submitted for a hearing May 2.

AHA podcast: Supporting Intensive Outpatient Perinatal Care 

Two behavioral health experts from Illinois-based Ascension Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital share how its intensive outpatient perinatal care program accommodates new moms who need an elevated level of support.

New AHA maternal health resource focuses on heart health for pregnant women 

AHA’s Better Health for Mothers and Babies initiative April 29 released a resource highlighting strategies hospitals are implementing to raise awareness and detect heart health needs early, during and after pregnancy.

HHS releases national suicide prevention strategy, plan

The Department of Health and Human Services and National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, a public-private partnership whose members include the AHA, April 23 released a national strategy and federal plan to prevent suicide over the next 10 years. The updated strategy includes a new pillar prioritizing equity for populations disproportionately impacted by suicide.