The U.S. House of Representatives has approved Senate amendments to the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013, according to an AHA News Now report.
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Yesterday, CMS said President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, has already made a sizable impact on the country's healthcare system through reduced spending and increased health outcomes.
From 2010 to 2011, inpatient admissions for substance use increased 19.5 percent and mental health admissions increased 5.9 percent, according to a Health Care Cost Institute report.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control will host a webinar in March to discuss opioid management in the emergency room, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists. http://asahq.org/For-Members/Advocacy/Washington-Alerts/CDC-Webinar-on-Challenges-in-the-Management-of-Opioid-Using-Patients.aspx The webinar, titled “Challenges…
At the National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C., HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and others from her department met with individual governors who had not yet agreed to expand Medicaid in their states in an effort to woo them…
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Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, MD, will speak on behalf of his state's plan to lower Medicaid costs in front of his peers of both parties at a National Governors Association meeting in Washington, D.C.
Sens. Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) have introduced a resolution in the U.S. Senate calling the role of rural hospitals "essential to the survival and success of communities," according to an AHA News Now report.
Sanford Health, based in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Fargo, N.D., has a vision of "improving the human condition through exceptional care, innovation and discovery." This vision extends across not only eight states, but also across international borders to areas such…
Included in a batch of proposals to combat gun violence signed recently by President Barack Obama is funding to train teachers for basic mental health triage and a referral system for children requiring mental and behavioral services, according to a…
Emergency department visits and hospitalizations in 2009, when the H1N1 pandemic began, were roughly double the ED visits and hospitalizations in 2008, according to a statistical brief from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project.