Metropolitan Anchor Hospitals
Innovation Leadership Challenge: Collaborating to Improve Hospital Flow, Save Lives and Reduce Costs
Date: July 25, 2018
Time: 8:00- 5:00 p.m. PT
September 26, 2017 Webinar
The KC Mental Health Assessment and Triage Center (KC-ATC) shared the unique story of its inception and an overview of the operations, successes and challenges for area hospitals and partners.
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Kathleen Becker, president of SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, will lead the AHA's Constituency Section for Metropolitan Hospitals as 2018 chair of its governing council. Dennis Pullin, president and CEO of Virtua Health in Marlton, NJ, is council chair-elect and will become…
WASHINGTON (January 16, 2018) – Today, the ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association (AHA) announced that Kathleen Becker, JD, FACHE, President, SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital in St. Louis will lead the AHA’s Section for Metropolitan Hospitals as chair of its 26-member council for 2018. The section…
Metropolitan Section hospital leaders serve a variety of governance roles within the Association. The section's governance and policymaking bodies are the governing council and regional policy board (RPBs). The Section governing council actively advises the AHA on advocacy positions, public…
The webcast will describe the work of the task force, the report’s findings and next steps for the AHA as it addresses these challenges.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission this week discussed several draft recommendations for Congress, which it could vote on in January. The proposals would make recommendations to increase payment rates for hospital inpatient and outpatient services by 1.25% in 2019; eliminate the 2019 and 2020…
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.04% in November to a seasonally adjusted 5,136,900 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. That's 2,200 more people than in October and 69,600 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of…