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Digging into the Reasons for Puerto Rico’s Successful COVID-19 Response

Exploring Puerto Rico's COVID-19 Response. Dive into the strategies and factors that contributed to Puerto Rico's successful handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, from high vaccination rates to a public health mindset.
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Advancing Education and Building Trust to Address COVID-19 in Communities of Color

April is National Minority Health Month. With COVID-19 having a disproportionate impact in communities of color, emphasis on improving access to vaccines as they become more widely available and eliminating health care inequities is critical.
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Recent Study on Pandemic Funding Narrow and Incomplete

America’s hospitals and health systems, regardless of size, location and ownership type, provided essential care to their patients and communities during the pandemic. Congress recognized the critical role hospitals play as the backbone of our health care system and swiftly took steps in the early days of the pandemic to provide support to ensure hospitals would remain resilient.
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What COVID-19 Continues to Teach Us about Hospital Culture

Situated in the heart of Westchester County and just outside of New York City, White Plains Hospital was among the first hospitals in New York to face the COVID-19 pandemic during the early days of 2020, back when there were many unknowns.
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Blog: Article on Charity Care Shortsighted

All hospitals and health systems, regardless of size, location and type of ownership, are deeply dedicated to caring for their patients and communities in a wide variety of ways. A report from May by the respected accounting firm EY demonstrates that for every dollar invested in non-profit hospitals and health systems through the federal tax exemption, nearly $9 in benefits is delivered back to communities.
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AHA urges Congress to provide additional COVID-19 relief

AHA today urged Congress to provide immediate additional support for hospitals and health systems as COVID-19 challenges persist.
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What the Pandemic Has Taught Us about Infection Prevention and Control

We’ve seen that valuable training and professional development help employees feel happier in their work, become more excited about the prospect of success and develop a higher self-worth.
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AHA submits comments on discussion draft of PREVENT Pandemics Act

The AHA Friday submitted comments on a
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Website accepting orders for free at-home COVID-19 tests

Americans can now order online up to four free at-home tests for COVID-19, which the U.S. Postal Service will start shipping in late January.
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CDC reports disparities in receipt of COVID-19 antibody treatments

An analysis of data from 41 health care systems participating in the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network found lower use of monoclonal antibody therapies for patients who are Black, Asian or other races compared with white and non-Hispanic patients between November 2020 and August 2021.