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Blogs from AHA leaders and members on the latest health care issues.
Chief among the flaws in the most recent study on hospital consolidation published in the New England Journal of Medicine was that its conclusions were informed by preconceived notions of what the authors thought the data should show, which was then undermined further by the arbitrary choices made鈥
AHA General Counsel Melinda Hatton writes that recent suggestions by FTC officials that the agency intends to challenge every hospital merger in the pipeline and antipathy toward Certificates of Public Advantage are troubling on a number of levels.
In this AHA Stat Blog, Jay Bhatt, D.O., AHA senior vice president and chief medical officer, discusses a new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant awarded to AHA鈥檚 Institute for Diversity and Health Equity.
U.S. Surgeon General Vice Admiral Jerome Adams, M.D., and Jay Bhatt, D.O., AHA senior vice president and chief medical officer, write that American maternal health must improve, and they outline actions health care leaders should take to improve outcomes.
Tom Nickels, AHA executive vice president, responds to a PhRMA-funded study that attempts to deflect blame for a growing crisis of their own making 鈥 the skyrocketing costs of drugs.
In addition to improving quality, mergers produce important cost savings and do not increase revenues.
AHA Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O. recently was featured on a Fox News story on hospitals in Denver and Chicago are investing in real estate and moving individuals directly from hospital emergency rooms into stable housing with intensive case management. See the鈥
Sean Marotta, a partner at Hogan Lovells who authored AHA's amicus briefs in the case, answers questions about the decision.
The pharmaceutical industry鈥檚 latest 鈥渞eport鈥 is an obvious attempt to divert attention away from a problem of their own making: skyrocketing drug prices.
Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of AHA鈥檚 Physician Alliance, examines key competencies today鈥檚 health care leaders should look for in the next generation of workers.