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The Food and Drug Administration yesterday warned health care providers and parents that enteral feeding tubes can become wrapped about a child’s neck, causing strangulation or death, citing reports of two deaths last year involving children under age 2.
The House yesterday voted 272-162 to pass a continuing resolution that would fund federal programs through March 11 to prevent a government shutdown when the current CR expires Feb. 18. The legislation also would extend through March 11 the current federal medical assistance percentage for certain…
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, today introduced a Senate companion to the Provider Relief Fund Improvement Act, bipartisan legislation that would require the Health Resources and Services Administration to distribute the remaining Provider Relief Funds by March 31. It…
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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 System, in Modern Healthcare. 
  
Vyaire Medical recently alerted customers to immediately disable a setting in certain bellavista 1000 and 1000e ventilators that can cause the ventilators to stop working. While it develops a software update to address the issue, the company advises customers to follow instructions provided in…
At AHA’s Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, the association released its 2022 Rural Advocacy Agenda, which outlines key legislative and regulatory priorities for the year ahead. These include bolstering the workforce, ensuring fair and adequate reimbursement, and supporting connected care by…
The AHA and seven other national hospital organizations today urged congressional leaders to act quickly to ensure hospitals and health systems have the additional resources they need to continue to care for their communities and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, including additional relief…
INSIGHTS FROM AHA RURAL CONFERENCE
Lassiter, Pollack thank rural health care leaders as conference kicks off
More than 1,000 attendees gathered in Phoenix for AHA’s 35th annual Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, which brings together rural hospital CEOs, senior executives, clinical leaders…
On a recent AHA webinar with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, health care leaders discussed key strategies for building among pregnant people trust in the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.