August 01, 2024 Celebrating Pa. Donor Day Today marks PA Donor Day, a time to celebrate the lifesaving gift of organ donation and call for all Pennsylvanians to sign up as organ and tissue donors.
July 31, 2024 Pa. Reps Call for CMS to Improve Payment to Hospitals The 2025 inpatient prospective payment system fails to reimburse hospitals for the cost of care, a bipartisan group of Pennsylvania’s delegation told CMS.
July 30, 2024 A Return of COVID-19 this Summer Like previous years, COVID-19 is making a summer comeback with 20 states reporting “very high” viral activity level.
July 29, 2024 Calculating the Costs of a Global Tech Outage The CrowdStrike tech outage caused nearly $2 billion in losses across the nation’s largest health care organizations, according to a new report.
July 26, 2024 Achievement Awards Spotlight: Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital HAP's annual Achievement Awards honor hospitals and health systems for their innovation, creativity, and commitment to patient care. The Achievement Awards showcase and share member hospitals’ and health systems’ successful programs and best practices.
July 25, 2024 What Happened with CrowdStrike? The cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike has identified the quality-control issue that upended health care and other sectors around the globe last week.
July 24, 2024 Public Health Agencies Warn of Critical Blood Culture Bottle Shortage The CDC and state public health officials are warning hospitals this week about a critical shortage of Becton Dickinson (BD) BACTEC blood culture media bottles that could disrupt patient care.
July 23, 2024 Interest in Cancer Drug Repository Program Grows The State Department this month announced a significant increase in participation in the Cancer Drug Repository Program.
July 22, 2024 The CrowdStrike Outage 3 Days Later Health care and other sectors are still working to untangle the global IT outage stemming from the CrowdStrike software update.
July 17, 2024 Workforce Solutions Spotlight: Northeast Pennsylvania Clinical Education Consortium As Pennsylvania ages, many health care professionals are reaching retirement just as the need for health care is rapidly growing. Hospitals and health systems are leading the way in growing the next generation of health care professionals to care for Pennsylvanians and our communities.