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Claire Zangerle Named Chief Nurse Executive of the AHA and Chief Executive Officer of AONL

The American Hospital Association (AHA) named Claire M. Zangerle, DNP, R.N., as senior vice president and chief nurse executive of AHA and chief executive officer of its American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL).
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AHA Statement on Final FTC Noncompete Regulation

For all of the reasons the AHA explained in its comment letter, the FTC’s final rule banning non-compete agreements for all employees across all sectors of the economy is bad law, bad policy, and a clear sign of an agency run amok. The agency’s stubborn insistence on issuing this sweeping rule — despite mountains of contrary legal precedent and evidence about its adverse impacts on the health care markets — is further proof that the agency has little regard for its place in our constitutional order. 
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AHA Statement on Final Rule on Minimum Staffing in Nursing Homes

The AHA strongly believes that a skilled, caring workforce is integral to delivery of high quality, safe care. Yet, the process of safely staffing any health care facility is about much more than achieving an arbitrary number set by regulation.
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AHA Statement on The Senate Introduction of The Safety From Violence For Healthcare Employees Act

Caregivers and other health care professionals are the heart of our nation’s health care system and deserve an environment free from violence. Hospitals are places of healing, which is why they are using a range of innovative strategies to create safer spaces for their workers and patients, including focusing on technology and training to mitigate risk to redesigning facilities and workflow processes to prioritize safety and reimagining relationships with hospital security and others to support prevention and crisis response.
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AHA Statement on Proposed Rule on Minimum Staffing in Nursing Homes

The AHA strongly believes that a skilled, caring workforce is integral to delivery of high quality, safe care. At the same time, safe staffing is about much more than a number. We are concerned that in proposing a one-size-fits-all numerical staffing threshold, CMS would remove the role of clinical judgment in staffing facilities, and inadvertently create patient access challenges across the health care system.
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New AHA Report Finds Financial Challenges Mount for Hospitals & Health Systems Putting Access to Care at Risk

The American Hospital Association (AHA) today released a new report that details the extraordinary financial pressures continuing to affect hospitals and health systems, as well as access to patient care.
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AHA Statement on the Introduction of The Safety from Violence for Healthcare Employees Act

Without caregivers, our health care system will collapse. The millions of dedicated health care workers across this country should never fear for their safety when they are working to save lives. But the sad reality is that many of them do. We ask much of the nurses, physicians and other clinicians and caregivers who have dedicated themselves to making our communities healthier.
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America’s Hospitals, Nursing Homes Send Joint Letter To CMS Urging Against Unfunded Staffing Mandates

The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the American Health Care Association (AHCA), the largest associations representing America’s hospitals and nursing homes, respectively, sent a joint letter today to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), outlining concerns with a federal staffing mandate for nursing homes. CMS is planning to issue a federal staffing minimum for nursing homes this year.
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AHA Statement on Omnibus Legislation

This legislation will deliver critical support and resources so we can better care for our patients and create healthier communities.
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AHA Statement in Response to the Sentencing of Former Nurse Radonda Vaught

We are pleased that the judge showed leniency in the sentencing of a health care professional who made a medical error.