CMS Updates Guidance on COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a memorandum and provider-specific guidance on complying with its interim final rule requiring COVID-19 vaccinations...
Save America’s Rural Hospitals Act Advocacy Campaign
We urge your support for the bipartisan Save America’s Rural Hospitals Act, H.R. 6400. This legislation introduced by Representative Sam Graves (R-MO) and Jared...
CDC Recommends Additional Boosters for Certain Individuals
Data continue to show the importance of vaccination and booster doses to protect individuals both from infection and severe outcomes of COVID-19. For adults...
FDA Identifies Philips Respironics Recall as Class 1
Philips Respironics has recalled certain V60 and V60 Plus ventilators because some of them could stop working due to an expired adhesive, the Food...
President Urges Immediate Hardening of U.S. Cyber Defenses Due to Potential Russian Strike
President Biden is urging an immediate hardening of private-sector cyber defenses “Based on evolving intelligence that the Russian Government is exploring options for potential...
Blood Shortages — How Can Hospitals Help?
Americas Blood Centers released a bulletin on blood shortages and how hospitals and their clinicians can help, from implementing certain transfusion and inventory management practices...
SDAHO Responds to White House Nursing Home Reform
The South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations recently responded to a February 28, 2022 fact sheet released by the Biden Administration on “Protecting Seniors...
CMS Updates Nursing Home Visitation Guidance
​On March 10, 2022 the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued updated memo QSO-20-39-NH Revised which replaces the term "vaccinated" with "up...
SAMHSA Announces Grants to Expand Substance Use Treatment and Prevention
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently announced $25.6 million in grants to expand access to medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder...
What Hospitals & Health Systems Need to know about Cybersecurity Threats Now
The AHA is closely monitoring the potential for increased cyber risks to the U.S. health system stemming from the ongoing military operations in the...
