The AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Engineering, in collaboration with The Joint Commission, has released the first in a new series of resources to help health care facilities comply with the most challenging life safety and environment-of-care accreditation standards. Additional resources will be released regularly through 2016. For more on the Focus on Compliance initiative and to access the first resource, on managing risk associated with utility systems, visit www.ashe.org/compliance.

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The AHA Aug. 31 joined a coalition led by LeadingAge and other national healthcare organizations in submitting comments to the Centers for Medicare &…
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In this conversation, Caroline DeLongchamps, director of the patient- and family-centered care program at MUSC Health, shares a powerful personal story and…
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The AHA Aug. 11 published a new issue brief on how hospitals and health systems can incorporate care navigation and coordination into their patient care…
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In our previous blog, we examined what the AHA’s affordability recommendations could mean for patients. Now we turn to another critical stakeholder group:…
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The House Ways and Means Committee July 1 voted along party lines to advance a bill, H.R. 9504, the Tax-Exempt Hospitals Transparency Act, that would add…
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The AHA today responded to a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services request for information on its Comprehensive Regulations to Uncover Suspicious…