Community Benefit
Nearly all health and healthcare policy leaders say they believe traditional safety-net providers – such as public hospitals, community health centers and faith-based organizations – will play a crucial role in the healthcare system of the United States after the Affordable Care Act goes into effect, found a recent survey conducted by The Commonwealth Fund and Modern Healthcare.
According to its recent Community Benefits Report, the Iowa Hospital Association's 118 community hospitals provided more than $1.3 billion in community benefits in 2010.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) created major incentive programs for clinicians and hospitals that adopt electronic health records and achieve certain Meaningful Use (MU) criteria.
Medicare average prescription drug premiums will not increase in 2012 and the cost of the average Medicare prescription drug plan premium will remain largely unchanged, announced the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday.
Hospitals are facing real issues regarding readmissions by the homeless. With nowhere to go and little to survive on, members of this population suffering from medical problems face a continued march in and out of hospitals. These readmissions, however, are hurting hospitals in many ways.
Lack of breastfeeding in the U.S. costs $2.2 billion annually in medical expenses for diseases that could have been prevented, says a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Grants totaling $71.3 million will be awarded to expand nursing education, training and diversity, announced Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Friday.
The normally sage CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation, Drew Altman, isn't as persuasive in his latest Pulling it Together column. As he puts it, "our health care system has been, and will remain, a mixed public-private one."
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should replace its 35-year-old 510(k) clearance process for medical devices, says a new report issued by the Institute of Medicine.
President Barack Obama has requested $54.9 billion in healthcare funding for the Department of Veterans' Affairs for fiscal year 2012 and $56.7 billion for fiscal year 2013, according to a report released by the Government Accountability Office in June.