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More than 1.6 million people selected a 2021 health plan through HealthCare.gov Nov. 1-14, including nearly 804,000 last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.

Nineteen organizations representing physicians and hospitals, including the AHA, urged congressional leaders to support legislation to freeze thresholds for clinicians to qualify for advanced alternative payment model incentive payments for the 2021 and 2022 performance years.

“Our front-line caregivers are our greatest source for what works and what doesn’t — with many life lessons to be learned as we go,” writes Susan Stacey, chief nursing officer/chief operating officer at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children’s Hospital in Spokane, Wash., which continues to care for the majority of COVID-19 patients in the community.

In honor of today’s National Rural Health Day, the AHA has posted a series of blogs showcasing rural hospitals’ and health systems’ achievements in preserving local access to care in their communities and outlining the association’s rural legislative priorities for Congress.

In a push to compel more Americans to seek health insurance coverage and protect themselves from COVID-19, the AHA, American Medical Association, American Public Health Association and a host of other organizations, elected leaders, states, individual hospitals and doctors announced Get Covered 2021.

The principals behind the federal Operation Warp Speed initiative expressed optimism that the Food and Drug Administration could soon authorize two safe and highly effective COVID-19 vaccines.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released guidance for celebrating Thanksgiving and slowing the spread of COVID-19 during holiday gatherings.

In an open letter to the American people, the AHA, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association today called on the public to scale back traditional gatherings this holiday season to celebrate safely and help prevent further spread of COVID-19.

At Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, we were involved very early in this pandemic. We are still caring for the majority of patients with the coronavirus in our community, and we learn more every day. Looking back on many months of dealing with COVID-19, here are some lessons I learned, which may resonate with you too.

In this AHA blog, AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels discusses the resources hospitals and health systems need and what additional relief Congress should deliver during the COVID-19 public health emergency and beyond.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention joined the global public health community in marking the end of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Equateur Province.

States may apply until Jan. 20 for grants to implement and enforce certain market reforms and consumer protections to strengthen the private health insurance market under the Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.

The House of Representatives passed by voice vote the Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act (H.R. 5855), AHA-supported legislation that would create a $10 million Department of Health and Human Services grant program to fund violence prevention programs linked to trauma centers and examine their effect on re-incarceration and readmission rates.

Sarah Krevans, president and CEO of Sutter Health, will join AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., Nov. 19 at 3:30 p.m. ET to discuss how hospitals can move from relief, recovery, and rebuilding to reimagining and innovation.

Join AHA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday at 2 p.m. ET for a Project Firstline conversation on caring safely for COVID-19 patients.

The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the Lucira COVID-19 All-In-One Test Kit, the first rapid test to detect the COVID-19 virus that one can administer completely at home when prescribed by a health care provider to individuals age 14 or older.

The Department of Health and Human Services issued clarifications sought by the AHA on two problematic reporting requirements for the Provider Relief Fund.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Dec. 1 will retire Hospital Compare and seven other health care quality compare websites, whose content has been transitioning since September to a single website called Care Compare.

The National Institutes of Health will fund six research projects to examine disparities in pregnancy-related complications and deaths among disproportionately affected women, including racial and ethnic minority groups, underprivileged women and those in underserved rural settings.