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Older Adult Behavioral Health
With approximately 10,000 Americans turning 65 every day, older adults’ behavioral health is an area of significant concern — particularly when you consider that chronic conditions common in older adults such as diabetes, stroke, hearing loss or heart disease can put them at greater risk of depression and anxiety.
AHA Comments on the CMS and ASTP/ONC Request for Information Re: The Health Technology Ecosystem
June 16, 2024
Behavioral Health
This web page is designed to provide easy access to information and tools that will assist hospitals and health systems in navigating the changing behavioral health care system and understanding national, state and local activities affecting behavioral health.
Advocacy Issue: SAVE Act
Hospitals, health systems and their staff support enactment of a federal law that would protect health care workers from violence and intimidation, just as current federal law protects airline and airport workers. Congress should enact the bipartisan Save Healthcare Workers Act (SAVE) (H.R. 3178/S. 1600), which provides protections similar to those for flight crews, flight attendants and airport workers.
Advocacy Issue: Workplace Violence
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers across the nation have experienced a sharp increase in incidences of workplace violence, with no sign that this trend is receding. Despite the diligent efforts of hospitals and health systems to prevent violence, health care workers remain five times more likely than any other type of worker to be physically attacked on the job, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
ILSM-ICRA precaution daily monitoring checklist
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New AHA Report Finds Workplace and Community Violence Costs Hospitals More than $18 Billion Annually
The AHA today released a new, comprehensive report that measures the substantial financial resources hospitals and health systems spend on preventing and responding to violence in their facilities and communities.
Fact Sheet: Workplace Violence and Intimidation, and the Need for a Federal Legislative Response
For the past decade, the health care field has experienced a sharp increase in workplace violence.
Key Issues for Nurses
Issue Landing Page
As a nurse leader, you face many challenges. What you may not be aware of are the myriad legislative issues affecting the nursing profession as a whole.