AONL

Content by and about the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL).

The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday advanced legislation on expiring telehealth and hospital-at-home flexibilities. AONL and the AHA supported the passage of the Telehealth Modernization Act, which extended telehealth flexibilities for two years that are set to expire Dec.
An academic medical center used an evidence-based tool to reduce its fall count and fall rate by 23%, and its fall with injury count and rate by 40%, resulting in savings of $982,700.
An educational campaign targeting patients and health providers on factors contributing to pregnancy-related deaths aims to cut maternal mortality in California in half by 2026.
Hospital closures and obstetric service reductions have resulted in more than 5.5 million women living in counties with no or limited access to maternity care services, a March of Dimes report found.
An American Hospital Association podcast features the 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award winners.
Hospitalized patients in the first quarter of 2024 were on average over 20% more likely to survive a stay compared with the fourth quarter of 2019, an American Hospital Association report found.
The Health Resources and Services Administration awarded $19 million over four years to five schools to increase the number of nurses practicing in rural and underserved acute care settings and long-term care facilities.
The Department of Health and Human Services this week awarded a grant to the trustees of Columbia University, New York City, for a study seeking to harness nursing’s knowledge to capture systematically the nuances of nursing data to improve artificial intelligence.
Clinicians at Cone Health in North Carolina are using an artificial intelligence tool to sort through its data on underserved populations and create targeted messages to re-engage patients.
CNOs can take steps to address underlying issues making nurses more likely than people in other professions to commit suicide, two AONL members say.