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Embracing Flexibility and Adaptability in the Face of COVID-19

Baptist Health in Jacksonville, Florida, reflects on lessons learned and best practices moving forward. We know that our field will continue to be challenged by COVID-19, but this pandemic has taught us a valuable lesson: The future is not going to wait for us, and instead we have to be ready to embrace it.

In Modern Healthcare op-ed, AHA Chair outlines COVID-19 illuminated path hospitals and health system must take 

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to strengthen the nation’s hospitals and health systems, writes AHA Chair Wright Lassiter III, president and CEO of Detroit-based Henry Ford Health Sy

AONL members ask House leaders to request investigation of nurse staffing agencies

This week, nearly 200 House members sent a letter to White House COVID-19 Response Team Coordinator Jeffrey Zients, urging his team to investigate

FEMA expands agreement to address transportation of health care resource needs during pandemic

The Federal Emergency Management Agency today published a plan of action to develop a national strategy that would coordinate transportation systems needed to supply, produce and distribute critical COVID-19 health care resources, the latest addition to a 2020 voluntary agreement under the Defense Production Act that permits private sector organizations to coordinate with other organizations to produce and distribute critical health care resources during the pandemic. 

Comments sought on draft preparedness legislation

Feb. 4 is the deadline for commenting on a discussion draft of the PREVENT Pandemics Act

CNOs offer strategies to reduce nurse strain

AONL member Kathleen Sanford, DBA, RN, was among four chief nursing officers (CNOs) who recently spoke with Becker’s Hospital Review about immediate ways to reduce nurse strain.

Senate HELP leaders release discussion draft of legislation to strengthen public health and preparedness systems

Leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee released for comment until Feb. 4 a discussion draft of bipartisan legislation to strengthen the nation’s public health and medical preparedness and response systems in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recruiting international nurses can take a year or more

Health care facilities looking to fill vacancies with international nurses should be prepared to face competition and significant wait times

Hospitals find fewer places to discharge patients

A lack of available beds in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and other rehabilitation settings is forcing hospitals to delay patient discharges.