Sen. Rounds Lifts Up SDAHO and Member Facilities in Press Release on Legislation to...
South Dakota, United State Senator Mike Rounds along with Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota shared a press release on November 7, 2023, regarding...
DHS and FBI Issue PSA to Highlight Potential Threats from Actors in Response to...
The South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations (SDAHO) received a memo on Thursday November 2, 2023, from John Wilgris, Vice President of Member and...
CDC Launches Campaign to Reduce Healthcare Worker Burnout
On October 31st, the CDC announced plans to launch an Impact Wellbeing Campaign to help hospital leaders tackle healthcare worker burnout.
The Centers for Disease...
CMS Releases 2024 Oversight Activities Related to Medicare Advantage
CMS issued a final rule in April that introduced new requirements concerning coverage criteria and the use of utilization management (UM) requirements in the...
Gov. Noem and Colleagues Send Letter Opposing President Biden’s Long-Term Care Regulations
Governor Kristi Noem and 14 of her fellow Republican governors sent a letter to President Biden opposing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’...
CDC Reports Increase in Health Worker Harassment, Poor Mental Health
The share of health workers who reported feeling threatened or harassed by patients or others at work more than doubled between 2018 and 2022...
HHS Announces Agreement to Transition Paxlovid to Commercial Market
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced that HHS and Pfizer have reached an agreement that extends patient access to Paxlovid,...
Congressman Dusty Johnson Lifts Up SDAHO as He helps Fight CMS Proposed Rule
The South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations (SDAHO) advocacy team are actively lobbying against CMS’s proposed staffing rule, which impacts all healthcare not just...
HHS Takes Action to Provide 12 Months of Mandatory Continuous Coverage for Children in...
In a press release from September 29, 2023 HHS reviews a letter sent to state health officials in the U.S.
As part of its ongoing...
Let’s Get Staffing Right; Tell Congress to Support HR 5796
The Protecting Rural Seniors Access to Care Act was introduced in the House to keep the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from...
