AHA Annual Membership Meeting

Posted by Jason Greis on January 9, 2011 under Events | Be the First to Comment

Join your colleagues April 10-13 in Washington, D.C., at the 2011 American Hospital Association Annual Membership Meeting to hear the latest on reforming health care, and to take hospitals’ message to Capitol Hill.  The meeting agenda includes prominent keynote speakers … executive briefings on important health reform topics to help prepare your organization for coming changes, an opportunity to earn ACHE credits … and more!  In times like these, speaking with one voice, to Congress and the Administration, to policymakers and opinion leaders, is more important than ever before.  Please visit the AHA 2011 Annual Meeting Website for more information. Read More...

Jim Prister to Chair AHA’s Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation

Posted by Jason Greis on March 5, 2010 under Industry News | Be the First to Comment

Congratulations to James (Jim) Prister, a NALTH Board member and President and CEO of RML Specialty Hospital, a long-term acute care hospital located in Hinsdale, Illinois focusing on weaning ventilator-dependent patients.  Jim was chosen to be the 2010 chair of the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation (see Press Release).  As chair, Jim will lead the section’s governing council which advises the AHA on public policy issues of concern to all post-acute and continuing care providers.   The governing council represents executives from among the nation’s leading LTACHs, rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing facilities, home health and continuing care services. Read More...

American Hospital Association LTACH Hospital Advocacy Days

Posted by Jason Greis on June 15, 2009 under Events | Be the First to Comment

A number of events have been organized on June 23 in Washington D.C. to make legislators aware of issues important to the LTACH community.  Please contact Dustin Siggins at ALTHA for more information regarding these events. Read More...

AHA Urges OMB to Block Hospital Reporting to CMS About Financial Ties to Doctors

Posted by Jason Greis on January 25, 2009 under Articles | Be the First to Comment

The American Hospital Association (“AHA”) urged the White House Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) in a letter dated January 16, 2009 to prevent the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) from implementing a rule requiring up to 400 randomly selected hospitals (including LTACHs) to report information, supply documents, and make certain legal certifications regarding their relationships with physicians in a Disclosure of Financial Relationships Report (“DFRR”).  Read More...