CMS Health Equity-Focused Measures
Consistent with the agency’s definition of health equity, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is working to advance health equity by designing, implementing,...
Grant Opportunities Available: Nursing Preceptor & Expansion of Nursing Programs
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently announced they are accepting applications for two funding opportunities to help support nursing workforce with preceptor...
CMS Released Home Health Proposed Rules
Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released their proposed rules for the Home Health (HH) Prospective Payment System (PPS). SDAHO home...
CMS Releases Maternity Care Plan; States Expand Medicaid Postpartum Coverage
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday released a plan to improve health outcomes and reduce inequities for people during pregnancy, childbirth...
Clinical Recognition of Monkeypox
​​According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an individual can recognize potential monkeypox infection based on the similarity of its clinical course...
Sonic Healthcare USA to Begin Monkeypox Testing, Increasing Nationwide Testing Capacity
Sonic Healthcare USA (Sonic) will begin testing for monkeypox using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) orthopoxvirus test, which detects most non-smallpox...
Report Urges Action to Reduce Drug Overdose Deaths and Disparities
Drug overdose death rates in 2020 increased 44% among Black people and 39% among American Indian and Alaska Native people, compared with 22% for...
HHS Issues Guidance on EMTALA Obligations, Protections
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released guidance and a letter to providers regarding HHS enforcement of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor...
Join NRHA for a Listening Session on New REH and CAH CoP
Join the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) for a listening session on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) newly proposed rule on...
CDC Reports Increase in Drug-resistant Infections During Pandemic
After declining in recent years, antimicrobial-resistant infections starting during hospitalization grew 15% from 2019 to 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
