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Be Well: Preventing Physician Suicide
Health care providers across our diverse workforce are faced with an ever increasing complexity in the systems and approaches we use.
AHA podcast: Lean-ing Toward Greater Efficiency in Daily Practice
Physical therapist Clare Fox with North Country Healthcare in New Hampshire shares with AHA’s Elisa Arespacochaga why she left her native England to pursue her health career dreams in the U.S., and how adopting the Lean Six Sigma process improvement approach has made all the difference.
Blog: Health Affairs Article Misses the Mark on Physician-Owned Hospitals
A recent Health Affairs post gives an incomplete account of the implications of allowing new and expanded physician-owned hospitals to bill Medicare and Medicaid.
AHA blog: Physician-owned hospitals were restricted for good reason
A recent Health Affairs Blog post by physicians “gives an incomplete account of the implications of allowing new and expanded physician-owned hospitals to bill Medicare and Medicaid,” writes Shira Hollander, AHA senior associate director of policy.
Blog: Hill Opinion Piece Touts the Wrong Prescription with Physician-Owned Hospitals
A recent piece in The Hill promoting physician-owned hospitals gives a misleading and incomplete account of these facilities and the reasons for current statutory restrictions on their growth.
Blog: Easing restrictions wrong prescription for physician-owned hospitals
A recent opinion piece in The Hill promoting physician-owned hospitals gives a misleading and incomplete account of these facilities and the reasons for current statutory restrictions on their growth, writes Ashley Thompson, senior vice president for public policy analysis and development at the AHA.
New Study Validates the Risks of Expanding Physician-owned Hospitals
A new study funded by Patient Rights Advocate adds to the evidence that physician-owned hospitals (POHs) are not comparable to or substitutes for full-service acute care hospitals.
Award Winners
Energy to Care award winners* are recognized for reducing their energy consumption by 10 percent or more over their baseline energy consumption.
What Boards Need to Know about the New CMS QAPI Requirement Jun 28
CMS's QAPI program is intended to ensure that hospitals have in place active and effective systems to examine the care they provide, identify problems that contribute to patient harm or poor performance and take steps to remedy those problems with appropriate follow up to ensure performance has improved. In updating this interpretive guidance, CMS is emphasizing its expectation that governing boards must oversee the quality of care provided. During AHA’s webinar, participants will hear from Nancy Foster, Vice President, Quality and Patient Safety, AHA about these new requirements and learn how to prepare your board to meet them.
Report: Examining the Real Factors Driving Physician Practice Acquisition
Policymakers and others have expressed growing concern about the trend of physician practices becoming affiliated with hospitals and health systems.