LeadingAge’s CAST debuts tools on latest tech to aid older adults in social engagement
From LeadingAge, published on October 19, 2017
The LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) today announces the launch of its latest resource created to educate aging...
President Trump takes administrative action undermining the ACA
Late last week, President Trump brought forward executive action that threatens to undermine coverage provided under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The first was an...
Meeting held with officials from Indian Health Services
Recently, administrative leaders from the North Dakota Hospital Association (NDHA) and the South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations (SDAHO) met in Aberdeen with James...
Senate Special Committee on Aging holds hearing on disaster preparedness
In the wake of nursing home resident deaths following Hurricane Irma and pictures of Houston-area assisted living residents who were photographed sitting in waist-deep...
MACRA episode-based cost measures field testing project
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its contractor, Acumen, LLC, are conducting a field test for eight episode-based cost measures before...
Physician Compare preview period is coming soon
On October 18, the Physician Compare 30-day preview period officially opened. Clinicians and physician groups have the opportunity to preview their 2016 performance information...
Know your pharmacist, know your medicine
To celebrate October as American Pharmacists Month, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) is spreading the message “Know Your Pharmacist, Know Your Medicine” and...
Fire relief fund for California hospital workers
The California Hospital Association has established a Hospital Workers' Fire Relief Fund to help hospital employees affected by the recent wildfires burning across the...
Helmsley Trust and Bipartisan Policy Center hold rural roundtable session
The Rural Healthcare Program of the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) held a roundtable listening...
Community benefit activities by hospitals outweigh federal tax exemption by 11 to 1
As the administration and Congress turn to tax reform, not-for-profit community hospitals do more than care for the injured and infirm; they promote and...
